We’re Doccla, the virtual ward company. We provide patients and clinicians with the transformative power of remote patient monitoring.
Our existing customers are Hospitals, Community Services, and NHS Commissioners that we partner with to deliver tech enabled virtual wards. With our technology, logistics, and support patients can be discharged from a hospital ward to a virtual one and recover in the comfort of their own homes. Patients love our care pathways and health services become more efficient; it’s a win-win.
Doccla is a growing health tech startup; we have secured a £35ml at Series B, led by European VC Lakestar, with new investors French VC Elaia and existing investors General Catalyst, Speedinvest and the investment leg of German media company Bertelsmann also participating. We're solving real problems for patients and health systems and we are growing at exceptional speed. We’re looking for dedicated people with a passion for solving the problems in healthcare.
This is your chance to join us at a key stage of our growth. Our ambition is to be a category leader for virtual healthcare. You will be joining a highly entrepreneurial team that combines technical, clinical, operational, and commercial colleagues.
The role:
Senior Test Engineers act as amplifiers of product quality and are essential in our industry of health tech. You will have a passion for ensuring quality is baked into everything we do, and will embed processes and tools to enable our software developers to move safely at speed.
Your focus, as a Senior Test Engineer, is that you will be responsible for enabling teams, advising on practice, contributing to the set up of new frameworks, suggesting and using tools, exploring our software, and anything else you can think of to ensure the quality and reliability of our software applications.
You will work closely with the development teams and other testers to identify and prioritise your work, and you will contribute to the continuous improvement of our testing processes, test automation suites, and the enabling of testing across the company through a blend of education, tooling and direct contribution.
You will have a balance between broad exploratory testing, procedural testing, and improving our processes so that we are able to reliably automate and improve flow for the most common pathways. You will set standards for testing that will raise the bar for all.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the testing process by identifying opportunities for automation and efficiency gains.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using industry-standard tools and frameworks.
- Collaborate with the engineering team to understand the architecture and design of the software under test.
- Contribute to the development of test practices and strategies for both manual and automated testing.
- Contribute to the maintenance of test cases used for regulatory evidence. Create systems and approaches to support generating the evidence of testing across our product landscape.
- Ensure that our regulatory and compliance load is understood, and suggest approaches to minimise the burden.
- Execute manual test scripts from time to time to support the regulatory burden of your teams. Research and advocate for better alternatives.
- Balance the needs of ‘moving fast’ with ‘embedding quality’ and strike a happy path that enables others to work with low friction
- Ability to identify risks and issues. Evaluate, advise and influence on best solutions and approach on projects while taking into account the context and constraints.
- Improve how we test, and help make it a part of the happy path for delivery while not creating bottlenecks and undue process.
- Stay up-to-date with industry good practices and emerging trends in testing and ensure we’re using the right tools to ensure quality across our delivery.
- Educate and up-skill those around you, especially engineers, to create a quality first mindset.
About you:
- You have excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
- You have experience with git and continuous integration tools (e.g. GitHub Actions).
- You identify as an engineer or technologist - you’ve got a rough working model of how the internet works, or understand the fundamental technological differences between Android and iOS, or totally grok application authentication, for example.
- You love to see teams deliver quickly, knowing that you have contributed to the quality embedded within the product, and you have been an integral part in its delivery
- You thrive on working with engineers and product teams to ensure we’re testing effectively.
- You have the ability to advocate for, recommend and clearly explain pros and cons of different approaches, tools and technology in context of the project or product.
- You know how to help teams and individuals determine what is good enough for now and safe enough to try
- You have experience in test automation using popular tools and frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Maestro, TestCafe etc.).
- You enjoy creating automation for some of your role, so that you can focus your time in on the exploratory and novel
Nice to have
- Experience of the regulatory and compliance space for health tech
- Experience in a fast-paced rapidly scaling startup or scale up would be valuable
- Experience of lead tester role on projects: able to lead all testing ceremonies and presentations
- Highly collaborative approach within projects and teams
- Excellent communication skills and have experience coaching developers, or coaching clients through UAT (e.g. tailors and adapts detail and approach appropriately to audiences)
Don’t worry if you don’t have all of these, we value diverse skill sets, and recognise that no one candidate will match all of these - we’d love to hear from you if this role seems like an interesting opportunity for you.
We empower everyone to take ownership and responsibility for the company and their role within it. We act ethically and think of helping patients and protecting their safety first.
Whatever your role is, to thrive at Doccla, a can-do and action oriented attitude is essential. As is being a clear and open communicator who is receptive to feedback.
Our team is hybrid with offices in London, Denmark, Germany & Stockholm. Most of the team lives in and around London and visits the office one to three times per week to enjoy in person meetings, free lunch with the team, and the general perks of a WeWork with a glorious barista. The extent of remote vs office working will depend on your role, as some roles have the flexibility to be fully remote.
We have an employee equity pool that you can be part of so that as the company continues to grow you’ll have a share in its success.
Some of our employee benefits include
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Annual Leave & Holidays:
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave plus up to 8 bank holidays per year.
- 🔄 Flexibility to buy or sell holidays back to the company.
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Remote Working:
- 🏡 Flexible Remote Work: Options to work remotely, giving you the freedom to balance work and life.
- 💻 Home Office Setup: £200 remote working stipend to enhance your home office.
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Financial Benefits:
- 📈 Employee stock options.
- 💸 4% pension on full basic pay.
- 🛡️ 4x basic pay for Life insurance.
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Health & Wellness:
- 🩺 Private health insurance.
- 🫄 4 months full pay for the birthing person.*
- 👶🏽 4 weeks full pay for the non-birthing person.*
- 🩺 Sick pay
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Workplace Perks (if not remote):
- 🍝 Daily lunch provided at HQ.
- 📚 £500 Learning & Development budget per employee.
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme.
- 🐶 Pet-friendly office.
What do you get for all your hard work?
- A competitive compensation package (base + options) with half year and annual performance reviews.
- Work at one of the most patient focussed and client centric healthtech startups, backed by top VC firms, General Catalyst & Speedinvest.
- Growth. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
Diversity at Doccla
We embrace diversity at Doccla. To build a product that is valued we need a team with all kinds of different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds. That's why we're committed to hiring people from different backgrounds, race, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability.
We understand that applying for a new job takes a lot of work and we really value your time. We are really looking forward to reading your application!
Safer Recruitment
Doccla is committed to the principles of safer recruitment, ensuring that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults is central to our recruitment processes.
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required for all posts with access to children or vulnerable adults. Please note that it is an offence to apply, offer or accept to do any work with children (paid or unpaid) if disqualified from working with children.
