Many technology companies need bilingual people to provide
linguistic testing for their localized software releases. Oftentimes, technology companies such as
Google, Cisco, Linked-in or eBay bring linguistic testers on for contract
positions. There is an additional
ongoing need for globalization QA engineers to provide functional testing for
both the internationalized and localized software. The skillset is more technical. There is often a need for experience with tools automation, the ability to read code,
debug, log bugs and even write test cases.
Oftentimes, an L10n tester or i18n tester is a full time
role and an important contributor to the globalization team. If you would like to go in this direction,
taking courses in test automation, programming languages or more focused
training/coursework in localization or internationalization testing would be a
good idea (see jobs
http://www.anzuglobal.com/careers.html
) .