Localisation QA Language Specialist – Spanish LATAM (manual)

SEGA is one of the leading interactive entertainment companies in the world, with our European HQ based in West London and development studios spanning the UK and Bulgaria. Known for quality and creativity above all else, our studios include Sports Interactive, Two Point Studios, Hardlight and Creative Assembly.

At the heart of SEGA is our publishing team based in London, where we help the studios bring their creative vision to life. Here we have a hardworking bunch of people spanning Tech, Sales, Marketing, Finance, QA and more.

Together, we drive the continued success and evolution of our Western business through living our company values of being product focused, embracing true partnerships and always having fun so that we can strive to come together as One SEGA.

Working Model: Hybrid (3 days in Studio per week)

Location: SEGA Europe, Chiswick Business Park, London

As a Localisation QA Language Specialist, you will play a key role in maintaining the linguistic quality and accuracy of SEGA titles, ensuring localisation meets the company’s standards and player expectations. Working in close collaboration with LQA Project Managers and the wider Localisation team, you will provide language expertise across

both in-game code and localised assets, supporting activities such as build sign-off, translation quality assessment, defect quality review. Through close engagement with internal teams and external vendors, the role contributes directly to localisation quality, process consistency, and successful game releases.

• Provide confidence in the localisation process by delivering translation reviews prior to game implementation and on the code during testing processes.
• Ensure consistency of the testing process across all vendors by providing regular feedback to LQA PMs. Provide IP support to the vendors as required.
• Review the code (across all projects) to ensure readiness for testing before it is delivered to the vendor.
• Review defects and edits from vendors for format, grammar and naming conventions. Identify quality concerns and feedback to LQA PM to resolve concerns promptly.
• Regularly test play the build with “confidence” checks across all products. Ensuring product quality and delivery progression are maintained.
• Regularly review terminology within the build to reduce risk of quality issues identified too late in the process.
• Liaise with the SEGA Territories to create and maintain Localisation CQA Checklists, to be provided to external vendors and complete them internally to mitigate the risk of must-fix issues in the submission code.
• Formally sign-off the code before submission or release by performing confidence cycles and ensuring that the build meets all the submission and release criteria.
• Support the business and the Studios with actor selection (casting feedback), review of the samples prior to implementation.
• Support with urgent translation requests / compliance high risk translation that require immediate implementation (without the need to outsource).
• Create and maintain language specific documentation for Development and wider business reference, including game glossaries and any related assets.
• Provide marketing assets review and editing as required.
• Provide any language related support for the contracted language to the wider business, including AI Prompt support, AI translation quality evaluations and feedback on tool development.
• Support with vendor selection feedback (for both translation and LQA).
• Game testing as and when required by the project / business, for instance executing test cases and supporting on GaaS testing according to volume.

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