Role & responsibilities

- Generate and export source files for multiple publication output types from online repositories (source files in md, xml, json, htm, indd, ai, psd, pdf, and Office formats).

- Configure and execute publish transform to build formatted outputs in various target types (online help, CHM, PDF, Word, zip).

- Evaluate source files, fix errors, extract non-editable texts, and prepare files for translation.

- Create translation projects in TMS platforms.

- Develop translated assets in Aegisub, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Office apps using provided text translations and input files. Includes capturing localized screens from localized application GUIs.

- Validate syntax and fix errors in localized markup, markdown, and JSON files.

- Create local-language packages, import to publishing tools, and prepare local-language publishing environments.

- Configure and execute publish transforms to build formatted outputs in all languages. Includes debugging and fixing errors/warnings.

- Perform side-by-side QA of source-language and local-language output to identify errors, capture defects in bug tracking systems, implement fixes in single-source assets, and republish.

- Implement edits and corrections requested by documentation owners.

- Work is performed in online and local applications. Interaction with colleagues and client contacts occurs in multiple channels and within both your Welocalize domain and a client-contractor domain.



Responsiveness and collaboration are key success factors in delivering services in this role.

Preferred candidate profile

- Documentation development in markup and markdown single-source environments.

- Setup, configure, execute of transformation engines to generate formatted output (OLH, CHM, PDF, etc.) from markup/markdown source.

- Cloud documentation management platforms with workflow automation.

- Quality assurance testing both format/layout and functional, of online and offline UA content.

- Managing single-source and output versioning in a multi-author setting.

- Managing change-orders in source files based on feedback provided against output files.

- Debugging and troubleshooting scripts used for publishing automation, in response to log errors or build failures.

- Continuous improvement mindset, always finding ways to deliver more efficiently and with less risk for errors.

REQUIREMENTS

- Bachelors degree with an engineering background.

- 1-2 years of experience in Technical Publication or a related field.

- Knowledge of installation and configuration management for the most common operating systems and platforms.

- Knowledge on encoding and fonts.

- ENG tools (EmEditor, Word, BeyondCompare etc.)

- Image tools (Photoshop, Illustrator etc.)

- Screen capture tools (SnagIT etc.)

- Github tools (Github Desktop)

- HTML Help Workshop

- Aegisub

📌 Technical Publication Engineer (Gurugram)
🏢 Welocalize
📍 Gurugram