QA- Senior Technical Leader

Perficient; Pennsylvania Furnace (PA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Perficient in Boston seeks a QA Technical Leader with 15+ years of Quality Engineering experience to drive enterprise-grade testing, automation, and AI testing across cloud-native platforms.

The role combines hands-on coding with people leadership, owning delivery, mentorship, and risk communication to senior stakeholders, while onsite with the client several days per week in Boston.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering and QA leadership.
• Hands-on coding and automation development.
• Experience testing AI agents, LLMs, and AI/ML models.
• Willingness to travel to Boston and onsite client presence.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of QA engineers and automation specialists across platforms.
• Set technical direction for automation and AI testing practices.
• Accountable for quality across product/platform in partnership with Architects, Engineering Leads, and Product Managers.

Skills

Coding

Test automation

QA leadership

AI testing

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Cloud-native testing

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.