The posting
Job Description
We are seeking a highly accomplished QA Technical Leader with 15+ years of experience to drive enterprise-wide Quality Engineering, Test Automation, AI Testing, and QA Technical Delivery Excellence across large-scale cloud-native and AI-powered platforms. A working technical QA leader who can code, debug, and build automation alongside the team while also owning delivery, mentorship, and stakeholder communication. Comfortable guiding a team through both traditional test automation and emerging AI testing practices, this person balances day-to-day hands-on contribution with the accountability of leading people and driving release quality.
This role is based in Boston, MA, and candidates must either be local to the area or willing to travel to Boston as needed. The position requires onsite presence with the client several days per week.
This role requires a deeply hands-on technical leader who leads by example — writing code, reviewing frameworks, and guiding teams through complex technical problems — while also owning the people, process, and delivery dimensions of a QA organization. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with practical experience testing AI Agents, LLMs, and AI/ML models, and is equally comfortable mentoring engineers, running technical reviews, and presenting quality risk to senior stakeholders.
The successful candidate will lead a team of QA engineers and automation specialists, set technical direction for automation and AI testing practices, and act as the primary point of accountability for quality across their product or platform area, while partnering closely with Architects, Engineering Leads, and Product Managers.
Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of technology architecture. Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation.
- Provide technology architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains.
- Lead projects within architecture. Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features.
- Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions.
- Own development of a few features in every Sprint.
- Support multiple Agile Scrum teams with planning, scoping and creation of technical solutions for the new product capabilities, through to continuous delivery to production.
- Liaise with offshore team and clients for resolving technical dependencies, issues, and risks.
- Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications.
- Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams.
Qualifications
- Strong Health Care Domain Experience at least for 3 to 4 years
- Strong hands-on programming skills in Java (preferred)
- Strong hands-on programming with Selenium+Java , Playwright + MCP , TypeScript , SQL
- Solid understanding of OOP, Design Patterns, and general software architecture principles.
- Strong Experience with Testing on cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
- Practical experience testing or validating AI Agents, LLMs, or AI/ML-driven features.
- Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Appium, Cypress, WebdriverIO, REST Assured, Postman, TestNG/JUnit, and Maven.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps) and Git-based workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a team while remaining hands-on with code and technical problem-solving.
- Strong communication skills, with experience presenting quality status and risk to engineering and product leadership.
Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.
WHO WE ARE
Perficient is a leading global digital consultancy. We imagine, create, engineer, and run digital transformation solutions that help our clients exceed customers’ expectations, outpace competition, and grow their business. With unparalleled strategy, creative, and technology capabilities, our colleagues bring big thinking and innovative ideas, along with a practical approach to help our clients – the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands succeed.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
At Perficient, we promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate our people. You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice. Join our team, and you’ll become part of something truly special.
We believe in developing a workforce that is as diverse and inclusive as the clients we work with. We’re committed to actively listening, learning, and acting to further advance our organization, our communities, and our future leaders… and we’re not done yet.
Perficient, Inc. proudly provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Perficient, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Perficient, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or covered veterans. Improper interference with the ability of Perficient, Inc. employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.
The salary range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, level of experience, applicable office location, training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The new hire salary range displays the minimum and maximum salary targets for this position across all US locations, and the range has not been adjusted for any specific state differentials. It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the unique facts and circumstances regarding each candidate. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is $160,000 to $208,400. Please note that the salary range posted reflects the base salary only and does not include benefits or any potential variable compensation programs. Information regarding the benefits available for this position are in our benefits overview.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed.
Disability Accommodations:
Perficient is committed to providing a barrier-free employment process with reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.
Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.
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About Us
Perficient is the global AI and technology consulting firm disrupting the traditional consulting model. Powered by our 7,000+ advisors, engineers, and designers, Perficient implements AI-first solutions that break conventions and deliver outcomes that matter. Proudly serving clients that represent the world’s most innovative brands, and in collaboration with our powerful technology partner ecosystem, we bring deep industry expertise and data-driven design to redefine how businesses run and succeed. Perficient is different. For real. Learn more at perficient.com.
