Lead, Quality Software Performance

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.; Towson (MD); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, life, vision, and 401

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid time off and tuition assistance

Job summary

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. is seeking a Lead, Quality Software Performance in Towson for a hybrid role. You will lead performance engineering across applications, build workload models, and create reusable Gatling frameworks.

Collaboration with development, architecture, DevOps, and product teams is essential to deliver scalable, reliable systems. The role requires a degree in a technical field and 7+ years of experience with Gatling, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, and observability tools.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building performance automation frameworks.
• Hands-on development with Gatling, Node.js, JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Proficiency with observability tools and cloud platforms.
• Experience defining performance objectives and capacity needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance engineering initiatives across software apps and services.
• Build realistic workload models including peak and stress scenarios.
• Develop reusable Gatling frameworks and test libraries.
• Analyze Gatling reports to identify latency, throughput, and resource issues.
• Collaborate with DevOps, architecture, and product teams on scalable apps.

Skills

Gatling

Node.js

JavaScript

TypeScript

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Dynatrace

New Relic

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Dynatrace

New Relic

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Lead, Quality Software Performance – Hybrid
3 Days in Towson, Hybrid to Towson
Towson, Maryland, United States
Come make the world and accelerate your success.
It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.
The Job:
As a Lead, Quality Software Performance, you’ll be part of our Construction Technology team working as a hybrid employee. You’ll get to:

• Lead performance engineering initiatives across software applications and services with a strong hands-on approach.
• Identify performance risks early in the software development lifecycle and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Establish performance engineering standards, frameworks, and best practices, and drive a performance-by-design culture across teams.
• Build realistic workload models covering normal, peak, stress, spike, and endurance scenarios.
• Develop reusable Gatling test frameworks and libraries to improve test development efficiency.
• Analyze Gatling reports and test metrics to identify latency, throughput, error-rate, and resource-utilization issues.
• Promote reusable, maintainable, and version-controlled performance automation.
• Build scripts and tooling to generate test data, orchestrate workloads, validate responses, and automate performance test execution.
• Define performance objectives, SLAs, response time targets, throughput requirements, and capacity expectations.
• Partner closely with development, architecture, DevOps, and Product teams to deliver highly scalable and reliable applications.

The Person:
You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience building performance automation frameworks and reusable testing utilities.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Gatling, Node.js, JavaScript, and/or TypeScript for development of complex performance test simulations.
• Proficiency with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience analyzing application behavior under load and identifying performance bottlenecks.
• Experience defining performance objectives, service-level expectations, and capacity requirements.
• Strong collaboration skills with development, architecture, DevOps, and Product teams.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.

The Details:
You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More:
We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship (H1B, OPT/CPT, TN etc).
The Salary range for this position is $95,600.00 - $153,900.00

• This is the lowest to highest annual full‑time salary range we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The salary offered within the range may vary depending on multiple factors including job level, geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience and in compliance with local wage requirements. Please note that salary is only one component of total rewards at Stanley Black & Decker.
• The salary range listed in this job posting reflects the range for the primary location specified. The salary range may vary for other locations.
• The successful candidate may be eligible for annual merit increases.
• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability,401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tool sand other partner programs.

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.
Who We Are
We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the‑art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.
What You’ll Also Get
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Benefits & Perks
You’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.
Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state‑of‑the‑art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
EEO Statement:
All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic.
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