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Audio Prooflistener - QA

Keywords Studios is an international technical and creative services provider to the global video games industry.

The video games industry represents the pinnacle of interactive digital content. At Keywords, we are using our passion for games, technology and media to create a global services platform for video games and beyond. By working as external development partner, we enable leading content creators and publishers to leverage our expertise and capacity across the lifecycle of interactive content. We provide integrated art production, engineering, audio services, testing, localization and player support services across 50 languages and 14 game platforms to a blue chip client base in more than 20 countries. We recruit and develop people from the widest possible talent pool so that we can gain an insight into different markets and generate creativity in anticipating customer needs to become even more successful.

Established in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Keywords now has over 50 studios located across Europe, North America, South America and Asia and over 5,000 passionate gaming employees around the world.

Requirements

We are looking for a QA prooflistener:

the figure will refer to the Audio and Text Quality Assurance Dept. and will take care of listening to the audio files both in English and in a localized language of his knowledge and will produce reports in which he will insert his notes regarding the quality of the files, as well as modifying the subtitles in case of differences, to match them with the audio. For this reason we are looking for a resource who, in addition to having an high level of the English language, is also a native speaker of one of the following languages: German, French, Japanese. VAT Number (Partita IVA) is mandatory

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Windows Suite skilled (particulary with Excel, Outlook and Teams)
• Mother tongue / Great level of one among these Languages: German / French / Japanese
• English Proficiency. Several checks are carried out on this language
• Confident with the most common compressed and uncompressed audio formats
• Confident with the most common audio players (Winamp, Media Player, exc)
• Knowledge of file transfer systems (IBM Aspera and FTP protocol)

SOFT SKILLS

• Able to work intermittently, on short notice and under pressure
• Available to work in summer months
• Attention to detail
• Meticulousness with the procedures learned
• Problem solving
• Resilience and ability to listen and to improve
• Accuracy and punctuality with the timetable
• Be a team-player
• Ability to organize hit time by establishing priorities
• Excellent communication skills, knowing how to synthesize a concept in both Italian and English
• Passion for Videogames is a plus

MANDATORY

• VAT Number (Partita IVA)
• Good PC running MS Windows
• Good headphone set MS Excel installed, minimum 2013 version A good internet connection (fiber, if possible)
• Skype account