diff --git a/CI/circle_parallel.sh b/CI/circle_parallel.sh
index 8ee9dbeb2f5..a0b4b7f48c0 100755
--- a/CI/circle_parallel.sh
+++ b/CI/circle_parallel.sh
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ if [ "$NODE_INDEX" = "1" ]; then
   echo "Running node $NODE_INDEX ..."
   java -version
 
+  sudo apt-get -y install cpanminus
+
+  (cd samples/client/petstore/perl && /bin/bash ./test.bash)
   (cd samples/client/petstore/ruby && mvn integration-test)
   (cd samples/client/petstore/ruby-faraday && mvn integration-test)
   (cd samples/client/petstore/ruby-httpx && mvn integration-test)
diff --git a/samples/client/petstore/perl/test.bash b/samples/client/petstore/perl/test.bash
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..455ff0a77b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/client/petstore/perl/test.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+cpanm --local-lib=~/perl5 local::lib && eval $(perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5/ -Mlocal::lib)
+cpanm --installdeps .
+
+perl tests/01_pet_api.t