QA Engineer (NHS)

Skin Analytics; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A health tech company based in London seeks a Quality Assurance Tester to ensure robust testing across clinical workflows and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate will have strong manual testing capabilities and experience in regulated health environments. This role emphasizes maintaining high standards in software delivery, impacting patient care positively through innovative technology.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Share options package

Private healthcare

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced parental leave

Bike to work scheme

Training budget

Social activities

Qualifications

• Strong experience in manual testing of complex web and/or mobile software applications.
• Experience testing in a regulated, clinical, or safety-critical environment is an advantage.
• Ability to work with BDD-style user stories and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Ensure confidence across clinical workflows with de-risking releases.
• Apply quality expertise to help avoid regressions and ensure safety.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including engineers and clinicians.

Skills

Manual testing of complex web applications

Tested clinical or regulated health software

Ability to write and maintain test cases

Familiarity with defect tracking tools

Structured exploratory testing

Knowledge of agile development

Tools

Slack

Jira

Google Docs

Job description

Responsibilities

• De-risking releases - ensuring confidence across clinical workflows.
• Manual and automated testing - the growing complexity of the product and use cases means more structured, consistent testing is required.
• Applying quality expertise - helping the team avoid regressions, ensure safety, and maintain high trust in the product.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams - including engineers, product managers, clinicians, and regulatory colleagues.
• Working on patient-facing NHS software - direct clinical impact.
• High‑stakes delivery - ensuring confidence in each release.
• Sprint‑based development - mix of feature, bugfix, and compliance‑focused work.

Qualifications & Experience

• Tools and technologies - Working with Slack, Jira, Google Docs, and modern browser‑based tools.
• Strong experience in manual testing of complex web and/or mobile software applications.
• Has tested clinical, NHS, or regulated health software.
• Ability to write and maintain structured, reusable test cases and regression packs.
• Comfortable working in agile sprint teams and testing from user stories, designs, and requirements.
• Familiarity with defect tracking and triage tools (e.g. Jira, TestRail).
• Experience testing in a regulated, clinical, or safety‑critical environment is a strong advantage.
• Structured exploratory testing approaches.
• Regression testing and risk‑based prioritisation.
• Traceability and documentation best practices in regulated environments.
• Working with BDD‑style user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Familiarity with software release lifecycle and UAT processes.

About Skin Analytics

Skin Analytics manufactures medical devices and complies with ISO standards 13485 and 27001. As part of your employment, you will be assigned Quality Management System (QMS) and Information Security Management System (ISMS). We require that our employees agree to complete their assigned training and diligently follow all company quality management and information security processes.

Skin Analytics is an award‑winning, health tech company that works with dermatology teams to deploy world‑leading skin cancer pathways using AI as a medical device, DERM. Following our recent £15M series B funding round and regulatory milestones, we're ready to scale internationally, making history for AI in healthcare and the future of dermatology. We're proud to epitomise AI for good - with a Class III CE mark, DERM is the only AI as a medical device approved to make clinical decisions autonomously in the cancer space, as well as being the first company to receive a NICE recommendation for use across the NHS.

DERM is deployed at more than 25 NHS organisations where we're supporting dermatology teams to build sustainable services that enable patients to gain quicker access to skin cancer diagnosis. If that's not enough, we also collaborate with some of the largest health insurers to reach patients in their own homes. We are a team of passionate people on a mission to build a future where no one dies from skin cancer. London based - Hybrid (3 days a week in the office), Skin Analytics embraces and is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. We are dedicated to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Share options package - all our employees have ownership in the company
• Private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (5 day company shutdown in August + bank holidays)
• Enhanced parental leave - includes adoption & foster
• Bike to work scheme
• Training budget
• Weekly catch‑ups, monthly meetings to talk about you, your ambitions and make plans
• Lots of fun social activities including company offsite!