Senior Localisation Quality Engineer in London

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Role overview: We are seeking a Senior Localisation Quality Engineer, a highly skilled and innovative individual who brings together design-phase product thinking, software engineering expertise, localisation awareness, and technical problem solving. The role builds on the core responsibilities of a Senior Localisation QA Engineer, combining strong localization quality expertise with software engineering, automation, and earlier involvement in the product design and development lifecycle. This role is ideal for someone who has worked closely with design teams in Figma, has experience reviewing and validating designs before implementation, understands how localisation impacts product and UI design, and can build scalable technical solutions to improve quality across the product lifecycle.

You will partner with design, engineering, product, and localisation teams to identify risks early, improve design quality and localisation readiness, and create tools, systems, and solutions that enable faster and smarter delivery. Rather than focusing only on post-implementation testing, this role emphasises early engagement in the design phase, including reviewing Figma files, prototypes, design systems, user flows, and content structures to ensure they are scalable, testable, and ready for localisation across languages and regions. You will also contribute as a hands-on engineer, building software, automation, integrations, and AI-driven solutions such as agents, assistants, or plugins that improve workflows, validation, and quality decision-making.

The ideal candidate combines strong software development skills, experience working with design systems and Figma-based workflows, practical understanding of localisation and internationalisation, and hands-on interest in engineering solutions to product and quality challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design Systems, Figma & Early Product Quality - Partner with designers, product managers, engineers, and the wider Localisation team to help identify localisation risks early in the design phase.
• Support the Localisation team by reviewing Figma designs and providing technical and design expertise to improve localisation readiness before implementation.
• Help the Localisation team identify and address design risks such as text expansion, truncation, layout issues, bidirectional languages, locale-aware components, and cross-market scalability.
• Build and improve tools, automation, and processes that enable Localisation QA to identify issues earlier and at scale, including automated design and content validation, screenshot capture, localisation readiness checks, and quality validation across languages and regions.
• Work with the wider Localisation team to define best practices and guidance that help designers and engineers create products that are ready for localisation from the start.
• Collaborate with design teams on design systems, UI patterns, and content structures to improve quality and reduce downstream issues before code is written.
• Help define quality expectations, localisation considerations, and implementation guidance directly from design artefacts and product requirements.

Localisation Quality & Testing - Perform hands-on Localisation QA testing across multiple languages, platforms, products, and regions, including linguistic, functional, visual, and internationalisation testing.

• Lead and support complex localisation quality initiatives, while contributing directly to day-to-day testing when needed.
• Develop and improve localisation test strategies covering linguistic, functional, visual, and internationalisation quality.
• Investigate complex localisation and internationalisation issues and work with engineering, design, product, and localisation teams to identify root causes and appropriate solutions.
• Help define localisation quality standards and ensure localisation considerations are integrated throughout the product development lifecycle, from design through implementation and release.

Software Engineering & Technical Solutions - Design and develop software, internal tools, automation, and reusable services that improve product quality, design validation, and workflow efficiency.

• Build scalable software solutions that support validation of product experiences across design, development, and release stages.
• Contribute to codebases, frameworks, and technical infrastructure that improve quality signals, design consistency, and localisation support.
• Partner with software engineers to improve feature readiness, system testability, and quality-by-design practices.
• Integrate validation and quality workflows into modern development environments and CI/CD pipelines where appropriate.

Automation, Tooling & Process Improvement - Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve localisation and product quality across design, engineering, and localisation workflows.

• Design and build tools, automation, integrations, or other technical solutions that help teams review designs, validate content, detect issues, and improve workflows.
• Choose the right technical approach for each problem, which may include traditional automation, scripts, plugins, APIs, AI/LLMs, or existing internal tools.
• Develop solutions that help identify localisation and quality issues earlier in the product lifecycle and provide faster feedback to teams.
• Prototype and test new approaches, measure their value, and develop successful solutions so they can be used by the wider Localisation team and potentially other teams.

Cross-Functional Leadership - Act as a bridge across design, engineering, product, and localisation teams, helping align quality, scalability, and user experience goals.

• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating complex issues into actionable recommendations.
• Influence teams toward a shift-left, design-led quality approach.
• Contribute to planning, design reviews, implementation discussions, and release readiness with a focus on preventing issues early.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to members of the Localisation team, sharing engineering, automation, localisation, and quality best practices.
• Promote a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Education: BS/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Design Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, design technology, quality engineering, localisation engineering, or related product development roles.
• Strong hands-on experience in software development, with the ability to build tools, systems, integrations, or automation that solve real product challenges.
• Experience working closely with design teams and Figma workflows, including reviewing designs, prototypes, component systems, and user journeys before implementation.
• Experience validating or testing Figma designs for quality, scalability, localisation readiness, and implementation feasibility.
• Practical understanding of localisation and internationalisation principles in digital products.
• Experience with localisation quality or testing across multilingual products, platforms, or regions.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Java.
• Hands-on experience building or experimenting with AI agents, plugins, copilots, or intelligent workflow tools.
• Experience with APIs, structured data, system integrations, and modern software development practices.
• Familiarity with developer collaboration tools such as GitHub, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Strong understanding of product development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and cross-functional delivery models.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong product thinking and problem-solving ability.
• Comfortable operating across design, engineering, product, and localisation domains.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and effective in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills.

Desired qualifications

• Experience with Figma design systems, component libraries, and design-to-development workflows.
• Experience creating or contributing to Figma plugins, design validation tools, or workflow extensions.
• Experience building AI agents, assistants, or plugins for design, engineering, content, or localisation use cases.
• Experience influencing product quality earlier in the lifecycle through design review and engineering collaboration.
• Familiarity with multilingual product development, translation workflows, or international launch readiness.
• Experience in video games, consumer technology, digital entertainment, or large-scale product environments.
• Fluency in one or more non-English languages is a plus.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to shape next-generation quality, localisation, and design-to-development practices.
• A dynamic and inclusive workplace where technical excellence, collaboration, and global impact thrive.
• Competitive compensation, performance bonuses, and comprehensive benefits.
• Career growth opportunities in a forward-looking engineering environment focused on quality, localisation, automation, intelligent systems, and early product excellence.

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