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# Senior/Staff System Test Engineer

- **Company:** Flok Health
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Android Software Development, Automation of Tests, Software Bug Management, Computer Programming, System Configuration, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, System Testing, Strategies of Testing, TypeScript, Web Applications, Video Streaming
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840613685-seniorstaff-system-test-engineer

## About the Role

* You have strong programming skills (ideally in Python / TypeScript)
 * You bring wide-ranging system/software test experience, including a breadth of different styles of testing, and with a focus on whole system testing and overall product quality
 * You're comfortable setting up CI systems and test environments
 * You enjoy working with design and product teams to help shape exceptional products
 * You care deeply about your users - championing great experience and access to quality clinical care
 * You take initiative and ownership of your work, and communicate clearly, * Software medical device development (or another regulated industry)
 * Testing iOS/Android apps and/or browser-based web apps
 * Working with video streaming and/or real-time technologies
 * Startup experience
 * Managing software release processes
 * Setting test strategy for your team/product/company, * Solving hard problems at the intersection of technology and healthcare
 * The pursuit of excellence-helping each other to do the best work of our careers
 * Working in an in-person collaborative environment
 * Taking ownership to have significant impact in a fast-growing mission-driven company with big ambitions

## Description

You'll be Flok's first dedicated test hire, and will take ownership of testing and product quality, for both our patient-facing application and internal clinician tools. This is an individual contributor role (at least for the foreseeable future), but with scope for technical leadership in terms of setting testing strategy and direction., * Designing and building automated tests (particularly e2e, scale and device-compatibility tests)

 * Performing manual testing (where it adds value)
 * Setting overall test strategy, prioritising test efforts, and writing clear QA plans
 * Managing the software release process and documenting releases for medical device regulatory compliance
 * Reviewing product requirements
 * Participating in bug triage/diagnosis and incident investigations
 * Configuring CI systems and maintaining test environments
 * Improving system observability to facilitate easier testing and debugging
 * Providing input into system design decisions with a focus on testability
 * Fixing some of the bugs you find (where appropriate)


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