ICT Test Manager Senior

About the job

Bern (and home office) | 80-100% (job sharing possible) |

This is how you can contribute

• Professionally responsible for the overarching test strategy, test planning and test management of the Mobile Security Communication System (MSK) across all layers, systems, user organisations and suppliers
• Design and coordinate integration, verification and end-to-end validation (E2E) including test levels, test environments, test data, test configurations, dependencies and test campaigns
• Define test and acceptance methodology and ensure traceability between requirements, use cases, test cases, results and findings
• Coordinate tests carried out by internal and external specialist units and consolidate results and findings to assess the maturity and operational readiness of the overall MSK system
• Plan and manage test activities in the proof of concept (PoC) and prepare the subsequent system, integration, interoperability and operational validations

What makes you unique

• Bachelor’s degree or higher vocational training in computer science, telecommunications, system engineering or a comparable field, plus several years of experience in test management of complex ICT systems
• Solid experience with test strategy, system and integration tests as well as E2E verification and validation
• Experience in coordinating tests across multiple systems, organisations, suppliers and test environments as well as structured defect management
• Good knowledge of test automation, test frameworks, traceability and modern test and application lifecycle management tools
• Strong leadership, coordination and communication skills and the ability to combine technical and operational test results into a comprehensible overall assessment
• Good active knowledge of at least one second official language

In a nutshell

Become a Senior Test Manager as part of the Cyber Command and shape the overarching test and validation strategy of MSK, ensuring that the individual components, networks and services can be integrated, verified and validated as a seamless E2E overall system for deployment.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the Swiss success model and work for the benefit of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunities, we develop our skills and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at work We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits

Your commitment to security and freedom

The Cyber Command (Kdo Cy) stands for expertise in the fields of cyber and digitalisation. We combine enthusiasm for our mission with know-how, innovation, state-of-the-art technologies and agile working methods. We provide secure, robust and resilient IT services for the Swiss Army and our partners in the Swiss security network. This enables the Cyber Command to give the Swiss Army the necessary knowledge and decision-making advantage – for a secure Switzerland.

The Swiss Army employs over 9,000 people in four military and around 200 civilian professions – at 110 locations throughout Switzerland. The next generation is also taken care of: the Swiss Army trains apprentices in over 30 professions.

Additional information

A position with the Swiss Army makes sense and offers many advantages. Convince yourself at armee.ch/vorteile .
Offers from recruitment agencies will not be considered.

Questions about the position

Philip Frick
Business Owner ICT Senior
+41 58 48 87014