CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. 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.
The Team:
Mattel Game Studios’ mission is to harness the power of Mattel’s iconic brands and IP to create engaging, high-quality digital games.
The 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.
Job DescriptionThe Opportunity:
Mattel 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.
The 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.
The 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.
What Your Impact Will Be:
Create and maintain reusable, well-documented test cases, checklists, and validation scenarios.
Execute functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing across the full slate of Mattel Game Studios titles.
Validate authentication, account linking, consent and age-gate flows for mixed-audience configurations, install and event attribution, deep links, SDKs, and platform integrations.
Validate 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.
Support time-sensitive build and data validation to supplement external QA.
Reproduce and investigate defects using logs, device data, account details, and timestamps.
Follow through with key stakeholders across Mattel’s external development partners and internal data and technology teams to investigate issues and verify fixes.
Support Internal QA sign-off for analytics, attribution, and related technical implementation.
Support the MDS Technology function by triaging internal access requests for Mattel accounts, permissions, and required tools across the product lifecycle.
Help build use cases and specs for QA tooling and process improvements, validating requirements, assessing vendor solutions, and assisting with buildout.
Serve as a secondary QA point of contact to support the MDS QA function, assisting the QA Manager as needed.
What We’re Looking For:
4+ years of game QA experience, preferably in mobile or free-to-play games.
Strong hands-on Android and iOS testing experience in a game publisher environment.
Experience creating test plans, test cases, regression suites, and exploratory scenarios.
Experience testing client/server, SDK, or platform integrations, and understanding of crash and ANR reporting.
Experience validating analytics instrumentation, telemetry, or event payloads.
Strong knowledge of LiveOps, progression, game economies, account systems, and platform integrations.
Strong troubleshooting skills across client, platform, and data-related issues.
Experience partnering with Engineering, Analytics/Data, Production, and QA teams.
Ability to work independently, prioritize and escalate across projects, and provide QA leadership coverage when needed.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience testing Unity and/or Unreal Engine games.
Familiarity with Xcode, Android debugging tools, and mobile logs.
Familiarity with App Store Connect, Google Play Console, and test build distribution.
Experience with Mixpanel, BigQuery, Looker, Tableau, or similar analytics tools.
Experience with attribution, deep linking, authentication, or consent SDKs.
Experience developing or maintaining automated tests.
Familiarity with CI/CD, mobile F2P analytics, or economy metrics.
Python scripting, C# programming experience is a plus.
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How We Work:
We 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:
- We 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.
- We 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.
- We 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.
Who We Are:
Mattel 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.
Mattel’s award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more.
Visit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.
Mattel is an Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran and protected veteran status, disability status, and or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment.
The pay range of 120,000 USD to 150,000 USD annual is indicative of projected hiring range, however base pay will be determined based on a candidate’s work location, skills and experience. Mattel offers competitive total pay programs, comprehensive benefits, and resources to help empower a culture where every employee can reach their full potential. a
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Skills Required
- 4+ years of game QA experience, preferably in mobile or free-to-play games
- Strong hands-on Android and iOS testing experience in a game publisher environment
- Experience creating test plans, test cases, regression suites, and exploratory scenarios
- Experience testing client/server, SDK, or platform integrations
- Understanding of crash and ANR reporting
- Experience validating analytics instrumentation, telemetry, or event payloads
- Strong knowledge of LiveOps, progression, game economies, account systems, and platform integrations
- Strong troubleshooting skills across client, platform, and data-related issues
- Experience partnering with Engineering, Analytics/Data, Production, and QA teams
- Ability to work independently, prioritize and escalate across projects, and provide QA leadership coverage when needed
- Experience testing Unity and/or Unreal Engine games
- Familiarity with Xcode, Android debugging tools, and mobile logs
- Familiarity with App Store Connect, Google Play Console, and test build distribution
- Experience with Mixpanel, BigQuery, Looker, Tableau, or similar analytics tools
- Experience with attribution, deep linking, authentication, or consent SDKs
- Experience developing or maintaining automated tests
- Familiarity with CI/CD, mobile free-to-play analytics, or economy metrics
- Python scripting or C# programming experience
Mattel Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mattel and has not been reviewed or approved by Mattel.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include automatic company contributions in addition to matching, with auto-enrollment and automatic increases that support long-term savings. Features like age-based company contributions and loan availability reinforce the program’s strength.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support is emphasized through paid parental leave and access to fertility and family-building resources, complemented by on-site childcare at select campuses. Recent program additions broaden support for parents and caregivers across locations.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Many salaried roles receive flexible or unlimited PTO alongside holiday programs and hybrid/flexible scheduling. This breadth of time-off options provides greater flexibility compared with traditional accrual systems.
Mattel Insights
What We Do
We are a purpose driven company with a mission to create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain, and develop children through play. We treat play as if the future depends on it — because it does. Play is our language, and we speak to our consumers authentically by representing the world as they see and imagine it. Mattel is a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest catalogs of children’s and family entertainment franchises in the world. We engage consumers through our portfolio of iconic brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Monster High and MEGA, as well as other popular intellectual properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include film and television content, gaming and digital experiences, music, and live events. We operate in more than 35 locations and our products are sold in more than 150 countries in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Mattel is recognized for the second year in a row as a Great Place to Work™ and as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2022.
