Lead, Quality Software Performance

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. • Towson, MD

5d • $95,600 - $153,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

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. You will identify performance risks early in the software development lifecycle and recommend mitigation strategies. You will establish performance engineering standards, frameworks, and best practices, and drive a performance-by-design culture across teams. You will build realistic workload models covering normal, peak, stress, spike, and endurance scenarios. You will develop reusable Gatling test frameworks and libraries to improve test development efficiency. You will analyze Gatling reports and test metrics to identify latency, throughput, error-rate, and resource-utilization issues. You will promote reusable, maintainable, and version-controlled performance automation. You will build scripts and tooling to generate test data, orchestrate workloads, validate responses, and automate performance test execution. You will define performance objectives, SLAs, response time targets, throughput requirements, and capacity expectations. You will partner closely with development, architecture, DevOps, and Product teams to deliver highly scalable and reliable applications.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.
• Paid time off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior