Tekken 8
Main Localization QA Tester (PT‑BR)
Certifying a AAA fighting game's Brazilian Portuguese release under real console-certification pressure.
The Challenge: Zero Tolerance for Linguistic and Technical Defects
A AAA fighting game ships to millions of players worldwide, and console certification leaves no room for text truncation, encoding glitches, or translations that read as anything less than natural, idiomatic Brazilian Portuguese.
With thousands of in-game strings, menus, and subtitles across every screen, the PT‑BR build needed a testing process rigorous enough to catch defects that would otherwise surface only after launch, in front of the entire player base.
- Thousands of strings, menus, and subtitles to verify for linguistic accuracy across every screen
- Zero tolerance for text truncation, overlap, or encoding defects ahead of console certification
- Translations had to read as natural, idiomatic Brazilian Portuguese, not literal ports of the source script
The Solution: Systematic, Multi-Pass Localization QA
Reviewed every in-game string, menu, and subtitle for linguistic accuracy, flagging tone, register, and meaning mismatches against the source script before certification.
Checked UI text for truncation, overlap, and encoding issues across every screen and target platform, then ran full regression passes after each localization fix to confirm issues stayed resolved without introducing new defects.
- Full linguistic and cultural QA pass across every in-game string, menu, and subtitle
- Truncation, overlap, and encoding checks across every screen and target platform
- Regression testing after each fix to confirm no new text or display defects were introduced
- Detailed, reproducible bug reports (JIRA) to help teams prioritize fixes ahead of submission milestones
Outcome: A Shipped, Certified Title — With an Official Credit
The PT‑BR build passed console certification cleanly, shipping to players with linguistic accuracy and text integrity intact across the full game.
The work was recognized with an official credit in the shipped title for contributions to localization quality, build stability, and release readiness — the same standard of rigor now applied to every full-stack project.
- Officially credited in Tekken 8 for localization QA contributions to the shipped title
- 1,000+ strings and test cases reviewed across the PT‑BR build