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We enhance business development and enterprise solutions to prepare them for a digital future. With a diverse and talented team present in more than 30 countries, we are strategic partners to leading global companies in their business process transformation.\nWe seek a Principal Quality Engineer, who shares our passion for innovation and change. This role is critical to helping our business partners evolve and adapt to consumers personalized expectations in this new technological era.\nAbout the role\nThe Principal Quality Engineer is a hands-on consultant who owns quality for a client account: understands the client's product, risks and delivery constraints, designs a testing approach to fit them, and delivers it with AI agents doing the execution while they keep the judgment. They define what deserves testing, validate requirements before code, govern the automation and the pipeline, and turn results into release decisions the client trusts.\nWe work with an orchestrated model in which specialised AI agents explore the application, analyse requirements, design and run tests and investigate defects. We hire for the ability to learn them fast and to design solutions on the same principles with any toolset.\nWhat you will do\nUnderstand the client's challenge and design a tailored testing solution: scope, risk-based strategy, test levels, automation approach, quality gates and release criteria.\n\nReview user stories and acceptance criteria with product owners for coherence, completeness and testability; prevent defects upstream in refinement and design reviews.\n\nUse AI agents and assistants to generate scenarios, run end-to-end and API tests and classify failures - and curate, validate and correct their output before it counts.\n\nOperate and extend automation suites (Playwright, Appium, API tests) integrated in CI/CD with reliable gates; keep them fast and stable, deciding when to trust self-healing and when not to.\n\nTriage findings (product defect, test, data or environment), run root-cause and trend analysis, and report real status to the client in business language.\n\nDefine how to validate AI-powered features whose output is not deterministic: success criteria beyond pass/fail, golden datasets, regression when prompts or models change.\n\nMentor the engineers around you on evidence-based quality decisions and on reviewing AI-generated work.\n\nMust-have skills and experience\n+7 years in software testing or quality engineering, including ownership of test strategy or automation for a team or account. Advanced English (B2/C1).\nConsulting and governance\nHas designed test strategies and plans from a client's risks and constraints, and can explain what was left out and why.\n\nWorks requirements with product owners (acceptance criteria, Definition of Ready / Done, BDD / Gherkin as a shared language), leads defect triage and reports quality metrics (coverage, escape rate, flakiness, cycle time).\n\nCommunicates clearly with client stakeholders; negotiates scope when constraints are real.\n\nEngineering\nReads, adapts and reviews test code (Python, TypeScript, etc); writes fixes and utilities. Judgment over generated code matters more than authorship speed.\n\nHands-on with a modern web automation framework (Playwright ie) and mobile automation concepts (Appium); API testing with REST and auth flows (OAuth2 / JWT) using Postman, Bruno, Karate or similar; SQL for data validation.\n\nGit with pull requests; integrates tests in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI or Jenkins) and defines quality gates.\n\nAI and agentic foundations\nDaily use of at least one AI coding assistant (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code or similar) to generate, refactor and review test assets.\n\nPrompt and context engineering in practice: structures prompts and supporting context, versions them, and knows when the prompt - not the product - caused a result.\n\nUnderstands how LLMs and agents behave (non-determinism, hallucination, tool use, cost) and reviews AI-generated artifacts before relying on them.\n\nHas adopted new agent tooling quickly (for example MCP-based tools) or can show a track record of fast tool adoption.\n\nNice to have\nEvaluation of LLM or RAG applications (DeepEval, Ragas, Promptfoo or custom harnesses; LLM-as-a-judge; red-teaming basics).\n\nAgent-mode workflows, MCP servers or spec-driven development; observability as a quality signal (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).\n\nPerformance (k6, JMeter) or accessibility (WCAG, axe) testing; Docker and cloud test environments.\n\nISTQB CT-GenAI or CT-AI; domain depth in financial services, media / OTT, retail, life sciences or enterprise platforms (SAP, Salesforce).\n\nThis job can be filled inBuenos Aires, Argentina #LI-Hybrid\nCreate with us digital products that people love. We will bring businesses and consumers together through AI technology and creativity, driving digital transformation toimpact the world positively.\nWe may use AI and machine learning technologies in our recruitment process. Globant is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Globant is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.\nFinal compensation offered is based on multiple factors such as the specific role, hiring location, as well as individual skills, experience, and qualifications. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package. 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