Punjabi Linguistic Lead Tester (Onsite) in Hyderabad, India

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are looking for a Punjabi Localization QA Tester / Proofreader to join a long-term and on-site project in Hyderabad, India.

As a Linguistic Tester, you’ll help bring high-quality Punjabi content to life and ensure it feels natural, accurate, and polished for end users. Your main focus will be reviewing and refining localized content, making sure it reads smoothly and is free from errors. This includes checking grammar, spelling, punctuation, consistency, formatting, and cultural or contextual accuracy.

You’ll also work hands-on with products by executing test cases, identifying localization bugs, and reporting issues through internal bug-tracking systems. Once fixes are implemented, you’ll help verify that they’ve been resolved correctly. From time to time, you’ll also have the opportunity to translate content from English into Punjabi. In addition, you’ll explore user interfaces to identify localization or functional issues, playing an important role in delivering a seamless and user-friendly experience.

This role is ideal for someone with native-level Punjabi fluency, strong attention to detail, and an interest in quality assurance within digital products. If you’re looking for a stable, long-term role (no end date) where you can apply both your language expertise and technical skills, this is a great opportunity.

 The Onsite Lead Tester is responsible for the overall quality of their language at an account level, as well as the main point of contact for Language Leads.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role:

• Linguistic tasks

• Coordination of the linguistic team, like for example:

- Reviews copy and gives feedback to testers; communicates feedback received from client

- Supports testers in understanding corrections resulting from the arbitration process

- Acts as liaison for terminology, style issues, product features & questions

- Supports the onboarding of new testers

- Identifies linguistic-specific training needs for the language; creates, maintains, and delivers the linguistic training program

• Quality management planning and execution

• Client engagement

• Linguistic assets management

Ability to work onsite at the client's office in Salarpuria Knowledge City in Hyderabad, IN (relocation package available)

Monday-Friday (8:30 am - 5:30 pm -> with one hour of lunch

Salary: 9 Lakhs (dependent on experience)

IDEAL BACKGROUNDS: Marketing, Journalism, Copy Editing, Proofreading, Writing, Translation, and/or Localization

Job Reference: #LI-JC1