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We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.\nThe Team:\nMattel Game Studios’ mission is to harness the power of Mattel’s iconic brands and IP to create engaging, high-quality digital games.\nThe QA Engineer, Games Platform & Analytics, will work across our growing portfolio and partner with QA, Engineering, Analytics, Production, and external QA teams to ensure the quality of our games, integrations, and supporting systems.\n The Opportunity:\nMattel Game Studios is seeking an experienced QA Engineer, Games Platform & Analytics, to provide hands-on testing and technical QA support across our mobile game portfolio.\nThe role will focus on supporting the quality and integrity of publishing platform integrations, analytics instrumentation, attribution, consent flows, player accounts, technical regression, and targeted build validation.\nThe ideal candidate has strong mobile game QA experience, is comfortable with technical teams and internal tools, and can independently investigate issues, validate data, and communicate risk.\nWhat Your Impact Will Be:\nCreate and maintain reusable, well-documented test cases, checklists, and validation scenarios.\n\nExecute functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing across the full slate of Mattel Game Studios titles.\n\nValidate authentication, account linking, consent and age-gate flows for mixed-audience configurations, install and event attribution, deep links, SDKs, and platform integrations.\n\nValidate analytics and attribution events by triggering gameplay scenarios, inspecting telemetry and payloads, verifying data integrity against expected schemas, including event taxonomy and attribution schemas, and identifying and reporting data issues.\n\nSupport time-sensitive build and data validation to supplement external QA.\n\nReproduce and investigate defects using logs, device data, account details, and timestamps.\n\nFollow through with key stakeholders across Mattel’s external development partners and internal data and technology teams to investigate issues and verify fixes.\n\nSupport Internal QA sign-off for analytics, attribution, and related technical implementation.\n\nSupport the MDS Technology function by triaging internal access requests for Mattel accounts, permissions, and required tools across the product lifecycle.\n\nHelp build use cases and specs for QA tooling and process improvements, validating requirements, assessing vendor solutions, and assisting with buildout.\n\nServe as a secondary QA point of contact to support the MDS QA function, assisting the QA Manager as needed.\n\n What We’re Looking For:\n4+ years of game QA experience, preferably in mobile or free-to-play games.\n\nStrong hands-on Android and iOS testing experience in a game publisher environment.\n\nExperience creating test plans, test cases, regression suites, and exploratory scenarios.\n\nExperience testing client/server, SDK, or platform integrations, and understanding of crash and ANR reporting.\n\nExperience validating analytics instrumentation, telemetry, or event payloads.\n\nStrong knowledge of LiveOps, progression, game economies, account systems, and platform integrations.\n\nStrong troubleshooting skills across client, platform, and data-related issues.\n\nExperience partnering with Engineering, Analytics/Data, Production, and QA teams.\n\nAbility to work independently, prioritize and escalate across projects, and provide QA leadership coverage when needed.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience testing Unity and/or Unreal Engine games.\n\nFamiliarity with Xcode, Android debugging tools, and mobile logs.\n\nFamiliarity with App Store Connect, Google Play Console, and test build distribution.\n\nExperience with Mixpanel, BigQuery, Looker, Tableau, or similar analytics tools.\n\nExperience with attribution, deep linking, authentication, or consent SDKs.\n\nExperience developing or maintaining automated tests.\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD, mobile F2P analytics, or economy metrics.\n\nPython scripting, C# programming experience is a plus.\n\n Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Join Mattel's Talent Community and start receiving exciting updates about our company, our employees, and our culture. Also, interested in signing up for job alerts? Do so here!\nHow We Work:\nWe are a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:\nWe collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.\nWe innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.\nWe execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.\nWho We Are:\nMattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.\nMattel’s award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more.\nVisit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.\nMattel is an Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. 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