sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal · United Kingdom, London · London, England, United Kingdom
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Role overview</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="color: #000000;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">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.</span></p> <p><br><br></p> <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></h2> <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Design Systems, Figma & Early Product Quality</strong></span></h3> <p>- Partner with designers, product managers, engineers, and the wider Localisation team to help identify localisation risks early in the design phase.<br>- Support the Localisation team by reviewing Figma designs and providing technical and design expertise to improve localisation readiness before implementation.<br>- 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.<br>- .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.<br>- 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.<br>- Collaborate with design teams on design systems, UI patterns, and content structures to improve quality and reduce downstream issues before code is written.<br>- Help define quality expectations, localisation considerations, and implementation guidance directly from design artefacts and product requirements.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Localisation Quality & Testing</strong></span></h3> <p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">- Perform hands-on Localisation QA testing across multiple languages, platforms, products, and regions, including linguistic, functional, visual, and internationalisation testing.<br>- Lead and support complex localisation quality initiatives, while contributing directly to day-to-day testing when needed.<br>- Develop and improve localisation test strategies covering linguistic, functional, visual, and internationalisation quality.<br>- Investigate complex localisation and internationalisation issues and work with engineering, design, product, and localisation teams to identify root causes and appropriate solutions.<br>- Help define localisation quality standards and ensure localisation considerations are integrated throughout the product development lifecycle, from design through implementation and release.</p> <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Software Engineering & Technical Solutions</strong></span></h3> <p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">- Design and develop so