Lead, Quality Software Performance
Stanley Black & Decker5 days ago
Towson, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$96k - $154k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead performance engineering initiatives across software applications and services with a hands-on approach.
- Identify performance risks early in the software development lifecycle and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Establish performance engineering standards, frameworks, and best practices across teams.
- Build workload models for normal, peak, stress, spike, and endurance scenarios.
- Develop reusable Gatling test frameworks and libraries.
- Analyze Gatling reports and metrics for latency, throughput, error-rate, and resource-utilization issues.
- 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 with development, architecture, DevOps, and Product teams to deliver scalable and reliable applications.
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 7 years of experience building performance automation frameworks and reusable testing utilities.
- Hands-on experience with Gatling, Node.js, JavaScript, and/or TypeScript for 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.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement.
- Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.
- Access to learning resources, including a digital learning portal, Lean Academy, and online university.
- Career development opportunities across multiple career paths and global brands.
- Wellness programs, paid vacation, holidays, and personal days.
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days in Towson, Maryland.
- Volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business programs.
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About Stanley Black & Decker
Stanley Black & Decker builds hand and power tools, storage, lawn and garden equipment, and engineered fastening systems for professional trades, OEMs, and DIY users. It owns brands including DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, STANLEY, and BLACK+DECKER, selling through retail, distribution, and direct to industrial customers. Founded in 1843 and headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: SWK).