Nexon America is a global video game publisher and developer known for its celebrated franchises. The Latin American Spanish Localization QA Specialist is responsible for evaluating and improving localized game content, ensuring linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness while collaborating with internal teams to maintain high-quality localization.
Responsibilities
- Review, evaluate, and correct localized game content for Latin American Spanish, including machine-translated output; ensure accuracy, cultural appropriateness, tone alignment, and overall readability; maintain internal terminology and style consistency across legacy and newly released content
- Perform in-game LQA testing during patches and content updates to validate contextual accuracy, UI compatibility, and formatting integrity; reproduce and clarify LQA issues for developers or QA teams
- Review and triage localization bugs submitted by players, QA, and community sources; provide final corrections or re-translations; collaborate with internal teams to implement fixes efficiently
- Maintain documentation of recurring language issues, contribute to terminology updates, and support improvements to internal style guides and localization processes
- Handle administrative tasks related to LQA planning, tracking, and communication with internal partners as needed
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- 1+ years experience in localization, ideally in gaming or entertainment industry
- Experience with translation tools (memoQ, etc.) and task tracking systems (JIRA, etc.)
- Strong familiarity with gaming terminology, genre conventions, and player communication tone
- Native-level fluency in Latin American Spanish with strong English proficiency
- Interest in working on legacy content, maintaining tone consistency, and contributing to long-term quality improvements
- Sharp attention to linguistic nuance, consistency, and readability
- Self-motivated and organized, able to handle multiple tasks in fast-paced release cycles
- Passion for gaming and understanding of in-game narrative and UI contexts
- Previously supported live games or worked in a fast-paced game localization setting
- Experience as a Latin American Spanish language specialist or LQA reviewer, specifically from the vendor side
- Familiarity with machine translation workflows and quality evaluation
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision plans for you, your spouse or domestic partner and your children
- Annual employer contribution to a health savings account
- Company paid hospital indemnity benefits
- Company paid life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability benefits
- Access to voluntary life and AD&D for yourself and your dependents
- Flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) savings plan with a company match
- Pet insurance
- Monthly wellness credit
- Lunchtime yoga
- Language classes
- Bi-monthly catered lunches
- Monthly happy hours
- Well-stocked snack bar
- Paid time off
- Sick days
- Company holidays
- Year-end break
Company Overview
Nexon is building a workplace based on mutual respect, good humor, and the pursuit of excellence because we believe that great games can only be built by amazing people. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.nexon.co.jp/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Nexon America has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 5 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.