Zoolatech

A large-scale consumer mobile application with millions of active users required a robust testing strategy to ensure stability, performance, and seamless user experience. Testing efforts focused on both iOS and Android platforms, covering functional validation, UI/UX consistency, geolocation features, and real-time interactions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute as a key member of a world-class Android Engineering and QA Automation team.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test cases and frameworks in Kotlin, JUnit, Espresso.
• Own the quality lifecycle: identify issues, file and track bugs in TestRail (or similar systems), and drive them to resolution.
• Collaborate closely with Android engineers to ensure application code is testable and automation-friendly.
• Build and maintain in-house tools for test parallelization, network mocking, and custom reporting.
• Perform peer code reviews, ensuring robust test coverage and reliable CI pipelines.
• Drive improvements to the CI/CD ecosystem, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and speed of test execution.
• Explore and integrate AI-assisted development approaches to enhance test generation, workflow optimization, and CI/CD practices.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies – daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and showcases.

Skills Required

• 2+ years of experience as an SDET, QA Automation Engineer, or related role, with a strong focus on Android application testing.
• Proficient in Kotlin and the Android SDK, with strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands-on experience with JUnit, Espresso and UI automation.
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks (Dagger/Hilt) and API testing using Retrofit.
• Familiarity with Jetpack libraries and modern Android development best practices.
• Strong experience with Git/GitHub, familiar with both Gitflow and trunk-based development.
• Knowledge of SOLID principles and ability to apply them in test framework design.
• Ability to apply or readiness to adopt AI-driven testing practices, including test generation and workflow automation.
• Strong English communication skills

Our partner is one of the largest retail e-commerce companies in North America, serving millions of customers every year. You’ll join the Enterprise Payments and Gift Card Team, which sits at the core of Nordstrom’s checkout and post-purchase experience.
The platform processes millions of transactions and billions of dollars annually, enabling seamless omnichannel payments, gift cards, refunds, and cancellations. This is a great opportunity to learn how large-scale, high-availability payment systems are built and operated in production.

Responsibilities

• Participate in agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives).
• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs under guidance from senior engineers.
• Write clean, maintainable, and secure code for RESTful and event-driven systems.
• Collaborate on designs and understand how individual components fit into larger systems.
• Create and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, basic end-to-end).
• Monitor and help troubleshoot services using logs, metrics, and dashboards.
• Learn and follow engineering best practices and coding standards.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback.

Skills Required

• 1–2 years of experience in software development (or strong internships / projects).
• Solid understanding of:
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Data structures and basic algorithms
• Experience with Java or another object-oriented language.
• Basic familiarity with:
  • REST APIs
  • Backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot)
• Understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Exposure to cloud concepts (AWS is a plus).
• Willingness to learn CI/CD, monitoring, and distributed systems.

Join Us in Building the Future of Inventory Services!
Are you ready to help develop a cutting-edge platform of APIs and web applications that power one of our Partner’s most critical business areas? Do you thrive in a team of dedicated professionals working toward a common goal with clarity and purpose?
About Our Partner
Our Partner is a leading fashion specialty retailer, founded on a simple yet powerful idea: provide each customer with the best possible service, quality, value, and selection. Delivering exceptional customer service goes beyond the sales floor—it requires a talented team with diverse skills to continuously enhance the systems and processes that serve customers.
About Our Team
We are the Inventory Services (Inventory Operations) Team, responsible for building and maintaining applications and services that drive our Partner’s Enterprise Inventory Service systems. Our work is a key part of the customer experience, ensuring seamless inventory management across multiple markets and channels.
We build new features and experiences using:

• Java Spring Boot
• AWS & Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Message Streaming Technologies (Kafka, etc.)
• Containerization & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

We operate in an agile, collaborative, and innovation-driven environment, where developers take full ownership throughout the software lifecycle.
Who We’re Looking For
We are seeking passionate engineer to bring technical expertise to our projects and production systems. As part of our team, you will:

• Own the entire development process – from scoping and design to coding and deployment.
• Investigate and resolve issues proactively, ensuring efficiency and scalability.
• Develop and maintain cloud-native applications, leveraging AWS or GCP.
• Champion best practices in SOLID principles, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Automate everything – because manual work is not the future.
• Challenge the status quo – if you hear, “It’s always been done this way,” you’ll be the one asking why.
• Contribute to open-source projects, expanding your perspective and skills.
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable code, balancing creativity with discipline.

Why Join Us?

• Work on high-impact projects that directly enhance customer experience.
• Collaborate with a highly skilled and driven team in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
• Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing, microservices, and DevOps.
• Take on meaningful challenges that push your technical and problem-solving skills to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Design & develop innovative solutions to drive our Partner’s business. 
• Have a passion for writing clean, consistent, and elegant code to create scalable and reliable systems
• Contribute towards moving the team forward in leading edge processes like continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud migration and test-driven development
• Work with defect tracking, source code control and software release systems to ensure high-quality software releases over time
• Assist in peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Contribute to the design and development process as part of a SCRUM team.
• Transition from application development to support as needed to ensure that appropriate support is available in a timely and efficient manner.
• Drive build and release plans and implementation of all actions required to deploy applications to production environment.
• Assist development manager with planning, analysis and definition of high-level software strategies and solutions through functional knowledge and an understanding of the enterprise business systems and industry.
• Have a passion for keeping yourself current with industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs
• Ensure corporate policies and industry best practices are observed and followed in developed applications.
• Provide high-level analysis and design reviews to other members in department to avoid duplication of efforts in solving same application problem with different products.
• Participate in rotating 12x7 shifts to support developed products
• Work with business, infrastructure and security teams on delivering any enhancements and bug fixes for production systems

Skills Required

• 4+ years of professional experience in the practice area 
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Engineering or equivalent practical experience 
• Experience analyzing, designing, coding, testing, installing and maintaining complex software programs
• Knowledge of Java and Java Springboot framework. Knowledge of other programming languages (like Python, React , JavaScript, C#) is a plus 
• Our systems are built with a variety of technologies; therefore, applicants should have a strong grasp of multiple tech stacks 
• Experience with Backend Database (preferably Spanner) or NoSQL or Postgres databases
• Experience with RESTful architecture and microservices. JSON and XML is required
• Experience with Amazon AWS/GCP services is required
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and modern development practices and development lifecycle using Scrum, Kanban, Lean, or other agile methodologies
• Familiarity with CI/CD and testing tools
• Familiarity with messaging middleware (Kafka, SQS)
• Experience with writing services as well as consuming services using REST, SOAP, XML, JSON or any combination
• Emphasis on building metrics into the system and providing visibility on uptime and performance via real-time alerting, reporting, and dashboards
• Sound object-oriented design skills and knowledge of application design patterns 
• Experience working with diverse, collaborative, cross-functional teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to persuade inspire and motivate others. This includes communicating technical information to non-technical audiences
• Experience with Retail Backgroud is a plus 

• Highly self-motivated and directed

  Must-have skills:

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Spanner/SQL/NoSQL databases
  • RESTful architecture & microservices
  • Intermediate level of English

  Nice-to-have skills:

  • AWS/GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Testing tools
  • Kafka, SQS
  • Experience with alerting and reporting tools