Quality Assurance Intern

About the Role

As a Quality Assurance Intern at Praper Media, you will be responsible for reviewing and evaluating video content to ensure it meets client expectations, YouTube's guidelines, and the company's quality standards. You will play an important role in maintaining overall video quality by identifying editing errors, ensuring smooth storytelling, verifying technical accuracy, and providing constructive feedback to editors. You will also gain hands-on exposure to YouTube channel management, content optimization, and platform best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Video Quality Assurance
• Review video content thoroughly before delivery or publication to ensure it meets company quality standards and client expectations.
• Identify visual and audio issues, including incorrect cuts, missing footage, synchronization errors, transitions, sound inconsistencies, and other editing mistakes.
• Ensure videos follow specific editing instructions, creative preferences, and guidelines provided by each client.
• Verify the technical quality of videos, including resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate, audio levels, and overall presentation.
• Provide clear, detailed, and constructive feedback to editors, highlighting necessary corrections and improvements.
• Storytelling & Content Accuracy
• Evaluate the overall flow, pacing, engagement, and storytelling of videos to ensure a smooth and enjoyable viewing experience.
• Identify unnecessary sections, awkward transitions, repetitive content, or missing moments that may affect viewer retention.
• Ensure important scenes, reactions, dialogues, and key storytelling moments are preserved and presented effectively.
• Verify that footage, graphics, subtitles, and other elements used in videos are accurate, relevant, and consistent with the intended content.
• Suggest creative improvements to enhance the overall viewing experience.
• YouTube Guidelines & Content Compliance
• Ensure all videos comply with YouTube's Community Guidelines and relevant platform policies.
• Review videos for potential copyright concerns, inappropriate content, and advertiser-friendly content issues.
• Identify content that may require additional editing, muting, blurring, or removal to reduce potential policy violations.
• Stay informed about YouTube's latest policies, content restrictions, and platform updates.
• Flag potential issues before videos are published and escalate concerns to relevant team members.
• YouTube Channel Management & Optimization
• Assist in reviewing video titles, descriptions, thumbnails, and other metadata to ensure accuracy, relevance, and consistency with client preferences.
• Develop a basic understanding of YouTube SEO, audience engagement, click-through rates (CTR), and viewer retention.
• Support the channel management team with content scheduling, publishing checks, and video optimization when required.
• Quality Tracking & Reporting
• Maintain accurate records of quality checks, identified issues, and corrections requested.
• Track recurring editing mistakes and communicate observations to help improve overall production quality.
• Prepare regular QA reports and maintain assigned work records and timesheets.
• Ensure reviewed content meets required quality standards before final approval or delivery.
• Team Collaboration & Creative Input
• Work closely with video editors, channel managers, and other team members to maintain a smooth production workflow.
• Communicate feedback professionally and ensure corrections are properly implemented.
• Collaborate with the team to understand client-specific requirements and maintain consistency across videos.
• Contribute creative suggestions to improve editing quality, storytelling, and audience engagement.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Basic understanding of YouTube, its Community Guidelines, copyright policies, and content standards.
• Basic knowledge of video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.
• Good understanding of video editing fundamentals, including cuts, transitions, audio synchronization, pacing, and storytelling.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify visual, audio, and content-related errors.
• Interest in movies, TV shows, YouTube creators, trending content, memes, and internet culture.
• Basic understanding of YouTube channel management, SEO, thumbnails, and content optimization.
• Good communication skills with ability to provide clear and constructive feedback.
• Ability to follow detailed instructions, understand client preferences, and maintain consistent quality standards.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple video reviews within deadlines.
• Willingness to learn, adapt to feedback, and work collaboratively in a team environment.