LatAm - Lead QA Engineer - Kotlin

We currently have a career opportunity for an Lead QA Engineer to join our team located in LatAm.

• Participate in quality assurance activities across backend, API, and UI layers, ensuring system reliability and data accuracy.
• Execute and maintain API tests using Kotlin, focusing on service integrations, business rules, and data validation rather than extensive automation coverage.
• Perform manual and semi-automated API testing using Postman and Bruno to validate requests, responses, and edge cases.
• Validate application behavior through UI testing with Cucumber (BDD), focusing on critical user flows and functional correctness.
• Conduct extensive database validations, including SQL queries and backend data verification to ensure consistency across services, databases, and UI.
• Work with Redis to validate cached data, key values, TTL behavior, and data synchronization.
• Use Lenses (Kafka) to monitor and validate events, messages, and data flows in distributed systems.
• Execute and validate AWS-related processes, including:
  • S3 file storage and data validation
  • Athena queries for backend verification
  • AWS Glue Jobs (execution and result validation)
• Support functional testing, regression testing, and defect analysis, collaborating closely with development and product teams.
• Ensure testing activities align with business requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, documentation, and testing strategies.

• Testing: Functional, API, UI, Backend, Regression
• Languages & Frameworks: Kotlin (API), Cucumber (UI)
• Databases: SQL, data validation
• Messaging & Cache: Redis, Lenses (Kafka)
• Cloud: AWS (S3, Athena, Glue Jobs – execution)
• API Tools: Postman, Bruno

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 is the global AI-first consultancy. Our team of strategists, designers, technologists, and engineers partners with the world’s most innovative enterprises and admired brands to deliver real business results through the transformative power of AI. As part of our AI-First strategy, we empower every employee to build AI fluency and actively engage with AI tools to drive innovation and efficiency. We break boundaries, obsess over outcomes, and shape the future for our clients. Join a company where bold ideas and brilliant minds converge to redefine what’s possible - while building a career filled with growth, balance, and purpose.