Hasbro is looking for an Associate Product QA Engineer to ensure their toys and games meet consumer expectations of safety, compliance, and reliability, by evaluating product concepts and samples early in the development process, identifying potential risks, and influencing design decisions to ensure manufacturability and adherence to global regulatory standards.
Requirements
- Understanding and application of Quality tools and analysis
- Proficiency in developing test plans, conducting risk assessments, and validating product safety and reliability against international standards.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret quality metrics, identify trends, and implement corrective actions.
- Familiarity with tools like Power BI for dashboards and reporting (DAX, data modeling is a plus).
- Exposure to manufacturing processes and vendor quality management is a plus.
- Drive initiatives to reduce defects, optimize processes, and enhance compliance systems.
- Ability to work across cultures and time zones, leveraging virtual collaboration tools effectively.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate toy and game concepts early in development to identify safety, compliance, and reliability risks.
- Partner with the upfront teams to influence design to mitigate potential issues and ensure downstream systems can consistently manufacture products to meet requirements.
- Create comprehensive test plans aligned with global regulatory standards and validate that products meet or exceed safety and reliability requirements.
- Work with the downstream teams to ensure understanding of the Product requirements/ test plans and support team during debug
- Analyze Consumer Feedback and Implement Corrective Actions
- Monitor consumer complaints and product returns.
- Investigate root causes and drive corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
Other
- Partner with Brand and Product Development teams to review Product Concepts and Samples/
- Partner with upstream partners to improve D&D processes as well as downstream partners to identify trends and improve manufacturing processes
- Represent Quality Assurance in cross-functional meetings.
- Partner with Design, Marketing, Operations, Consumer Care, and Legal teams, as well as colleagues in Asia and other regions, to ensure quality objectives are met.
- Clear and persuasive communication skills for internal teams and external stakeholders, including regulators and vendors.
