Technical Publication Engineer

Welocalize, Inc.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Welocalize, Inc. is seeking a documentation publication specialist to generate and export source files for multiple formats from online repositories and configure transforms to publish outputs in various languages.

You will evaluate, fix, and prepare files for translation, create translation projects in TMS, and develop translated assets using industry tools. Collaboration across languages and platforms is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with an engineering background.
• 1-2 years of experience in Technical Publication or a related field.
• Knowledge of installation and configuration management for common operating systems and platforms.
• Knowledge of encoding and fonts.
• ENG tools such as EmEditor, Word, BeyondCompare.

Responsibilities

• Generate and export source files for multiple publication output types from online repositories (md, xml, json, htm, indd, ai, psd, pdf, Office formats).
• Configure and execute publish transforms to build outputs (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 with provided translations.
• 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 outputs in all languages and fix warnings.
• Perform side-by-side QA of source-language and local-language output; log defects and republish.
• Implement edits and corrections requested by documentation owners.

Skills

Markup/Markdown docs

Single-source environments

QA testing (format/layout)

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

EmEditor

Word

BeyondCompare

Photoshop

Illustrator

SnagIT

Github Desktop

HTML Help Workshop

Aegisub

Job description

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 environment.
• 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