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As a Localization QA Tester, you'll proofread Italian content, ensure guideline compliance, report bugs, provide feedback, and perform translations.

Owns gameplay spaces and designs engaging levels for first-person action, RPG, co-op, and other games. Responsibilities include greyboxing, level assembly, gameplay implementation, combat and encounter design, player flow, exploration, modular level construction, procedural generation support, and replayability. Collaborates with art, design, and production teams while incorporating feedback and maintaining quality standards. The role also involves creating landmark spaces, applying level metrics, and supporting PC and console game production.

Leads Shanghai audio production operations, manages and develops project managers, oversees budgets, schedules, quality, client relationships, vendors, contracts, and delivery risks. The role includes team coaching, workflow improvement, commercial oversight, reporting, escalations, and coordination across international teams. Candidates need project or production experience, Mandarin and English fluency, strong client and people-management skills, Excel proficiency, and availability onsite in Shanghai five days per week.

Supports backend servers and microservices infrastructure across cloud and on-premise environments. Builds automation tools, scalable CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and observability systems, and infrastructure-as-code solutions. Provides 24/7 PagerDuty incident response, root cause analysis, vulnerability assessment, and process improvement. Collaborates with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to manage production reliability, release processes, customer experience metrics, and development and testing workflows.

Perform localization quality assurance on games: review translated text and UI for grammar, cultural accuracy and consistency; log language and display bugs; ensure adherence to platform guidelines; collaborate with multilingual teams and produce reports and ad-hoc translations.

Develop and execute manual and automated tests for video game development tools, workflows, and builds. Maintain test frameworks, tools, infrastructure, scenarios, and coverage while collaborating with developers and QA teams. Participate in Agile planning, refine user stories, investigate defects, document results, communicate quality risks, and support continuous improvement. The role also involves console testing and validation, including porting initiatives and platform certification requirements.

Develop and execute manual and automated tests for video game development tools, workflows, and console builds. Improve test frameworks, infrastructure, scenarios, and coverage while collaborating with developers and QA teams. Participate in Agile planning, review user stories for testability, investigate defects, communicate quality risks, and support continuous improvement. The role includes testing across console platforms, including Nintendo Switch and porting initiatives.

Performs localization quality assurance testing for video games, identifying language, cultural, formatting, display, and functionality issues. Tests localized content across gaming platforms, logs bugs and translation errors, writes reports, performs ad hoc translation, and collaborates with multilingual project teams to ensure compliance with platform guidelines and localization quality standards.

Develop and maintain test cases, test data, validation artifacts, and automated scripts for firmware products. Execute manual, exploratory, white-box, black-box, regression, and functional testing; document and track defects through resolution; analyze system and crash logs using tools such as Splunk; collaborate with development and product teams on requirements and test strategies; and monitor debugging outcomes.

Provide player support by troubleshooting game-related issues across chats, emails, and calls. Document resolutions in ticketing systems, follow policies and style guides, communicate clearly and empathetically, and manage multiple interactions efficiently. Candidates should be adaptable, security-conscious, calm under pressure, and comfortable supporting games across PC and console platforms. Zendesk or Salesforce experience, gaming knowledge, and familiarity with game communities are beneficial. This is a talent pool listing for future opportunities.

Develop and maintain automation frameworks for web, mobile, API, and backend testing. Build scalable automated tests integrated with CI/CD pipelines, validate distributed systems and client-server interactions, investigate quality issues, and improve test coverage and release confidence. Collaborate with software engineers, product teams, and QA teams in Agile environments while contributing to engineering-driven quality practices.

Perform localization quality assurance for video games by checking Brazilian Portuguese translations for linguistic accuracy, cultural appropriateness, terminology consistency, and console formatting compliance. Test game content in context, document bugs clearly in a database, suggest improved translations, verify fixes, and repeat testing through completion. The role requires native-level Brazilian Portuguese, fluent Japanese or English, gaming familiarity, attention to detail, and basic Word and Excel skills.

Owns hands-on accounting, month-end and year-end close, reconciliations, statutory reporting, payroll verification, budgeting, forecasting, cash forecasting, consolidation, compliance, and business partnering. The role supports operational leaders with financial analysis, improves accounting processes and controls, maintains accurate ERP records, and coordinates with external accounting, tax, treasury, shared services, and Group Finance teams.

Supports end-to-end HR operations, including onboarding, employee records, attendance, HRMS updates, offboarding, employee queries, documentation, and policy compliance. Coordinates with internal teams on employee needs and assists with engagement events, communications, welfare initiatives, vendors, budgets, and expenses. Requires strong organization, confidentiality, communication, and coordination skills, plus proficiency in Microsoft Office and familiarity with HRMS tools.

Manage financial operations for US-based studios, including monthly close, billing, payments, reconciliations, journal entries, fixed assets, financial statements, reporting, compliance, audits, payroll review, budgeting, forecasting, and cash planning. Partner with studio leaders and global finance teams while improving financial processes, controls, documentation, and reporting accuracy.

Supports HR and administrative operations, including recruitment coordination, onboarding and offboarding, benefits administration, payroll documentation, employee records, leave tracking, ERP updates, and employee inquiries. Manages office facilities, supplies, invoices, events, meetings, and training support while maintaining confidentiality and compliance with statutory benefits requirements.

Tests Latin-American Spanish localization in video games by identifying linguistic, terminology, formatting, and contextual errors. Reports bugs clearly in a database, recommends improved translations, verifies corrections, and repeats testing through final release. The role requires native-level Latin-American Spanish, strong attention to detail, daily gaming experience, basic Word and Excel skills, five-day availability, and residence in Japan with a valid working visa.

Lead the evolution, optimization, automation, and governance of finance processes built on Microsoft D365 Finance & Operations. Own financial modules, reporting, controls, master data, upgrades, testing, documentation, training, and process improvements. Partner with Finance, IT, vendors, and business teams to deliver system enhancements, maintain compliance, improve data integrity, and support accurate statutory and management reporting.

Leads the evolution, optimization, automation, and operation of Microsoft D365 Finance & Operations. Responsibilities include finance process improvement, system enhancements, upgrades, testing, master data and controls, reporting, documentation, training, change management, compliance, and collaboration among Finance, IT, vendors, and global business teams.

Develop and maintain production browser-based games using PixiJS. Implement gameplay, UI systems, animations, audio, and game mechanics while improving performance across desktop and mobile. Own technical architecture, code quality, testing, monitoring, technical debt reduction, and scalable development practices for existing commercial titles.