Senior Lead, Software Performance & Automation

Stanley Black & Decker; Towson (MD); Hybrid; USD 96.000 - 154.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker工具

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid time off

401(k)

Zusammenfassung

Stanley Black & Decker in Towson, MD seeks a Lead, Quality Software Performance to drive performance engineering across software apps and services. The role emphasizes hands-on testing with Gatling, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript, plus strong observability and cloud skills. Hybrid work with 3 days on-site in Towson.

The candidate will set performance objectives, build workload models, and collaborate with DevOps, architecture, and product teams to ensure scalable, reliable systems.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or 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.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

Performance engineering

Gatling

Node.js

JavaScript

TypeScript

Observability tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Workload modeling

Ausbildung

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Gatling

Node.js

JavaScript

TypeScript

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Dynatrace

New Relic

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Jobbeschreibung

Stanley Black & Decker in Towson, MD seeks a Lead, Quality Software Performance to drive performance engineering across software apps and services. The role emphasizes hands-on testing with Gatling, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript, plus strong observability and cloud skills. Hybrid work with 3 days on-site in Towson.

The candidate will set performance objectives, build workload models, and collaborate with DevOps, architecture, and product teams to ensure scalable, reliable systems.