About The Position
The Localization QA Tester is responsible for evaluating localized content to ensure linguistic accuracy, cultural relevance, functional quality, and a consistent user experience across supported languages. This role executes test cases, reviews translated content, identifies and reports defects, and collaborates with cross functional teams to maintain high localization quality.
Requirements
- Native‑level proficiency in the target language.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken).
- Tech‑savvy; comfortable testing across multiple tools, devices, and platforms.
- Knowledge of QA methodologies, bug tracking, and reporting.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify nuanced linguistic or UI issues.
- Ability to communicate findings clearly and professionally.
Nice To Haves
- 2+ years of experience in QA, Localization QA, or linguistic testing.
- Experience with CAT tools or localization platforms (e.g. Worldserver, memoQ, Smartling, Lokalise).
- Familiarity with internationalization and multilingual UX concepts.
- Familiarity with multiple file formats, e.g. .CSV, JSON, HTML, Unicode, etc.
- Strong proficiency with macOS/iOS environments.
- Ability to work on multiple projects in a fast‑paced environment.
- Experience collaborating with distributed or cross‑functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Execute full Localization QA test cycles across different platforms, OS versions, and testing environments (including Production).
- Review, verify, edit, score, and translate copy across a wide range of media and content types.
- Validate localized content for tone, grammar, context, cultural relevance, and linguistic correctness.
- Evaluate UI behavior for truncation, clipping, alignment, wrapping, and encoding issues.
- Report and track bugs clearly and accurately; retest to confirm fixes.
- Provide clear feedback and suggestions regarding linguistic errors, UX issues, and functional defects.
- Contribute updates and recommendations to Style Guides and Terminology Databases.
- Assist with ad‑hoc localization QA tasks, spot checks, and build verifications.
- Collaborate with localization PMs, translators, developers, and QA teams.
- Suggest process or workflow improvements to increase QA efficiency, scalability, and consistency.
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