Testers for PET: Do you want to use your skills where they make a difference?

Can you see yourself helping protect Denmark from external threats and safeguard the nation’s security? Do you want to use your testing experience to quality assure the systems that are crucial to our society? And would you help develop solutions that our colleagues use for tasks that don’t exist elsewhere? Then you may be our new colleague.

About the job

As a tester in PET you will become part of a team where we plan and solve tasks together. We work in an agile environment where we meet in person to brainstorm and solve tasks together.

You will become a central part of the ongoing digitalisation and quality assurance of PET’s most critical systems. You will work closely with the rest of the team on solution design, code and testing. Your daily work will be characterised by close dialogue with developers, project managers and the users for whom the solutions are built. We work with the whole solution, and as a tester you are involved from start to finish to ensure that what we deliver holds water.

Your main tasks will be

• Quality assurance throughout the process: You participate in the agile meetings such as stand-up, refinement and sprint planning, where you help ensure that we build the right solutions from the start.
• Test design and execution: Development and maintenance of test cases as well as execution of functional testing, integration testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing.
• Test automation: You contribute to automating tests and deployment.
• Defect handling and resolution: You work with the developers to find the cause of defects and ensure they are resolved correctly.
• Documentation: You share responsibility for ensuring that our test processes and results are documented so they are easy to follow and understand.

About you

We are looking for a person who wants to be part of creating change and making our IT solutions even more robust. Your mindset and your willingness to learn matter more to us than a long list of specific tools.

We imagine that you

• Enjoy collaborating and thrive in a team: You are happy to share your knowledge and take feedback well. You are a colleague others want to work with.
• Have technical experience: You have several years of experience with the testing discipline. You have experience with both manual testing and test automation, and it is valuable if you have knowledge of tools such as Postman and standard test automation tools.
• Are analytical and solution-oriented: You focus on detail but don’t lose sight of how your test fits into the overall architecture.
• Have a good security awareness: You understand the importance of our task, and you take responsibility for the quality of your own and the team’s deliverables.

Feel free to highlight in your application if you have previously ISTQB certification or have experience working in complex IT environments with many integrations.

Enjoy a everyday work that never becomes routine

It takes IT professionals to safeguard freedom, people and democracy, and PET is a large IT workplace. Here, developers, infrastructure specialists, network technicians, self-taught hackers, firewall specialists and many others with an IT background work together.

Some have chosen PET to work with large and complex tasks. Others were attracted by the fact that we design many of our solutions from scratch, develop and implement them. Our colleagues rely on our work, and we are involved from start to finish. Finally, many of us have chosen the job to work on a cause that is bigger than profit and billable hours.

We have a higher purpose.

Our workplace is like no other. Here every day brings new challenges that didn’t exist yesterday. We have a kind of everyday that never becomes routine, and you can have that too.

We offer a community with great professional diversity, which every day works to safeguard Denmark’s and the Realm’s security. You will have many skilled and collaborative colleagues who look forward to getting to know you and together become better at our work. At PET we invest in creating a good working environment as well as developing and strengthening our leaders and employees. We prioritise onboarding and continuing education highly, and you will be equipped for your tasks.

In addition, we focus on work-life balance. Are you sporty? Then we have a training centre. Are you social? Then there is a Friday bar, wine tastings, board games and much more. We also offer flexible hours, a paid lunch break, a pension scheme and up to six months of paid maternity/paternity leave.

PET is an active part of society, and therefore your curiosity about the outside world and new tasks is a good prerequisite for success. If you also maintain a positive approach, see opportunities and quickly grasp new things, you will fit in very well.

In PET we also place high value on certain personal competencies. These are competencies that we believe are essential for all PET employees regardless of professional background. We do this because it is important for us to find the right match. You can read about the competencies at www.PET.dk/job.

Employment terms

Start date: February 1, 2027. We expect to begin interviews in week 45. You can read more about PET’s entire recruitment process at www.pet.dk/job.

Employment in PET must be treated with discretion, which you as a applicant should be aware of. This means that you can generally tell close and trusted relations that you have applied for a position in PET, but not what the job entails. For the sake of application discretion you should also be careful about which information about yourself and PET you might handle in AI systems.

It is a condition of employment in PET that you can be security-cleared to top secret, and you must be able to maintain the security clearance throughout your employment. As security-cleared, you are expected to be particularly mindful of your confidentiality regarding classified information.

If you have an academic background, you will be employed on collective agreements in accordance with the agreements between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).

If you have another educational background, you will be employed under collective agreements for clerical staff in the state between the Ministry of Finance and HK/STAT and the OAO-S joint agreement

Your workplace will be Klausdalsbrovej 1 in Søborg, right next to Buddinge station, where intercity train, light rail and bus stop at your door. At PET we work on internal systems and with confidential tasks, and therefore we also come to work each day to solve our tasks.

Further information

You can learn much more about PET as an employer at www.pet.dk/job, where you can read more about all the professional groups that work in PET and their everyday life. You can also listen to our podcast series ’Service and Threats’.

You are also always very welcome to contact HR on weekdays by email [email protected] or by telephone +45 24 62 18 45 between 08:00-11:00 if you have questions about the position, PET as an employer or similar.

When you apply for a position at PET, you consent to us retrieving your CPR number via the CPR registry for identification in connection with the recruitment process. We retrieve your CPR number so we can securely send relevant and necessary documents to you via Digital Post.

It is important for us that PET reflects the diversity we strive for. Therefore we encourage all interested, regardless of gender, age, religion, sexuality and ethnic affiliation, to apply for the position.

Step into a closed world that opens new doors, where we develop ourselves, train and build on what we can. Whether we develop new systems, analyse data or fine-tune stance for shooting training, we are always on our toes. It creates good opportunities for you to move with us, grow with the tasks and open new doors in your working life.

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Application deadline

23.10.2026

Application deadline

23.10.2026

Employer

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET)

Workplace (long)

Søborg

Part-time / full-time

Full-time