diff --git a/tests/loggers/test_mlflow.py b/tests/loggers/test_mlflow.py
index 4297d6f519bf2..35bad766798b1 100644
--- a/tests/loggers/test_mlflow.py
+++ b/tests/loggers/test_mlflow.py
@@ -201,18 +201,28 @@ def test_mlflow_logger_with_long_param_value(client, mlflow, tmpdir):
         logger.log_hyperparams(params)
 
 
+@mock.patch('pytorch_lightning.loggers.mlflow.time')
 @mock.patch('pytorch_lightning.loggers.mlflow.mlflow')
 @mock.patch('pytorch_lightning.loggers.mlflow.MlflowClient')
-def test_mlflow_logger_with_artifact_location(client, mlflow, tmpdir):
+def test_mlflow_logger_experiment_calls(client, mlflow, time, tmpdir):
     """
-    Test that the logger raises warning with special characters not accepted by MLFlow.
+    Test that the logger calls methods on the mlflow experiment correctly.
     """
+    time.return_value = 1
+
     logger = MLFlowLogger('test', save_dir=tmpdir, artifact_location='my_artifact_location')
     logger._mlflow_client.get_experiment_by_name.return_value = None
 
+    params = {'test': 'test_param'}
+    logger.log_hyperparams(params)
+
+    logger.experiment.log_param.assert_called_once_with(logger.run_id, 'test', 'test_param')
+
     metrics = {'some_metric': 10}
     logger.log_metrics(metrics)
 
+    logger.experiment.log_metric.assert_called_once_with(logger.run_id, 'some_metric', 10, 1000, None)
+
     logger._mlflow_client.create_experiment.assert_called_once_with(
         name='test',
         artifact_location='my_artifact_location',