Urdu QA Lead (Remote)

About the role

This remote, hourly contractor position focuses on leading quality assurance for Urdu AI training projects. You will ensure that AI‑generated Urdu content and trainer work meet high standards of accuracy, cultural relevance, and consistency.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Urdu AI training projects.
• Review AI‑generated Urdu content and trainer/QA outputs against detailed project rubrics.
• Provide precise written feedback in English and ensure contributors follow quality standards.
• Assess content for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, meaning preservation, instruction‑following, and proper formatting.
• Identify recurring quality issues, communicate updates to trainers and QAs, and support onboarding of new contributors.
• Maintain documentation and help reactivate contributors who are not working consistently.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Urdu, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a related field.
• Native or near‑native proficiency in Urdu with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong command of English for following guidelines and providing feedback.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Urdu writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, annotation, or related language‑review workflows.
• Deep understanding of Urdu grammar, spelling, punctuation, tone, register, cultural context, Nastaliq script conventions, and right‑to‑left formatting.
• Experience handling Pakistan Urdu, India Urdu, formal/literary, and conversational Urdu as required.
• Ability to evaluate content against detailed rubrics and spot issues such as mistranslation, unnatural tone, formatting problems, hallucinated claims, and inconsistent terminology.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred.

Required skills