diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 0b8a87bb35ddfabf966e59b9e43af639e0b7fe41..37826729b815d0390d0e64d8c0409a2f9fa90f13 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -573,6 +573,16 @@ smoketest-uc3-kstreams:
     DOCKER_COMPOSE_DIR: "uc3-kstreams"
     JAVA_PROJECT_DEPS: "uc3-kstreams,kstreams-commons,uc3-load-generator,load-generator-commons"
 
+smoketest-uc3-flink:
+  extends: .smoketest-benchmarks
+  needs:
+    - deploy-uc3-flink
+    - deploy-uc3-load-generator
+  variables:
+    DOCKER_COMPOSE_DIR: "uc3-flink"
+    JAVA_PROJECT_DEPS: "uc3-flink,flink-commons,uc3-load-generator,load-generator-commons"
+
+
 smoketest-uc3-beam-flink:
   extends: .smoketest-benchmarks
   needs:
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/docker-test/uc3-flink/test.sh b/theodolite-benchmarks/docker-test/uc3-flink/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..217a730f73fa1fee3f875da34edd9047ed9221db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/docker-test/uc3-flink/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+until docker-compose exec -T kcat kcat -L -b kafka:9092 -t output -J | jq -r '.topics[0].partitions | length' | grep "\b3\b"; do sleep 5s; done
+
+docker-compose exec -T kcat kcat -C -b kafka:9092 -t output -s key=s -s value=s -r http://schema-registry:8081 -f '%k:%s\n' -c 600 |
+    tee /dev/stderr |
+    awk -F ':' '!/^%/ {print $1}' |
+    sort |
+    uniq |
+    wc -l |
+    grep "\b10\b"
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