QA Automation Engineer
NTT Data Americas, Inc. · Charlotte, NC
$60–$71.11/hrfrom the description
Jul 27, 2026
Charlotte, NC
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A QA Automation Engineer role at NTT DATA in Charlotte, NC, focused on designing, building, and maintaining automated test frameworks for web applications, REST/SOAP APIs, and distributed microservices in a brokerage or financial services context. The position requires deep hands-on experience with AWS serverless and event-driven architectures, CI/CD pipeline integration, and end-to-end testing across complex enterprise systems. Strong domain knowledge in brokerage, retirement, or investment services is a hard requirement.
Senior level · 5+ years · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC · Contract
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 50 people in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 30–90
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $83,793 (middle half $75,883–$126,931). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists REST Assured, Postman, and Karate as a grouped 'or similar' requirement under Basic Qualifications. All three are named explicitly, so each is captured individually with the others as alternatives — any one of them satisfies the requirement.
Selenium and Playwright are similarly listed as interchangeable ('and/or') in the framework requirement, but Playwright also carries its own separate 3-year minimum, so both are captured individually with cross-references.
AWS Certification is explicitly required ('AWS Certification with hands-on cloud experience is required'), but it is a credential rather than a named technology tool, so it is not emitted as a skill; hiring managers should note this as a hard gate.
Brokerage or financial services domain experience is stated as a hard requirement ('is a must') and retirement/investment domain experience is 'highly preferred' — this is a domain knowledge gate that cannot be represented as a named technology skill.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent work experience,' which means equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree; the degree requirement is therefore set to None.
The pay range ($60–$71.11/hr) and the contract-style hourly billing strongly suggest this is a contract or W2 contract engagement, though the posting does not explicitly label the employment type as such.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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