Erika Mcgovern Email & Phone Number

• Strong leadership skills• Self starter, well organized, detail oriented and have the ability to learn and adapt quickly• Excellent problem solving, multitasking, and communication skills• Able to work well in a team environment and successfully meet goals and objectives under tight deadlines• Strong knowledge of Software Quality Assurance Life Cycle and Quality Assurance methodologies• Experience working in international/multicultural environments• Able to work under minimal supervision• Bilingual (Brazilian Portuguese: native and English: fluent)• Beginner Spanish, French, and ItalianSpecialties: * Writing and executing test cases based on Product Requirements and Technical Specifications* Tracking outstanding issues, logging new issues, and verifying/closing resolved issues* Linguistic and Functional testing, as well as Functional testing for Spanish, French, and Italian* Great knowledge of localization tools and processes* Technical translation, review, editing, and QA of technical and non-technical documents* Localization of software interface, online help and documentation

Listed skills include Technical Translation, Editing, Localization, Translation, and 32 others.

• Localization Specialist

  Self

  May 1998 - Present - Burke, Virginia, United States

  • Technical translation, review, editing, and QA of technical and non-technical documents• Localization of software interface, online help and documentation• Onsite localization quality assurance• Effectively manage teams from 1 to 6 outsourced translators• Work in several projects at the same time, and effectively manage time in order to meet tight deadlines• Great knowledge of localization tools and processes• Vendor selection and outsourcing• Progress reporting, communicating directly with the customers