Lead, Quality Software Performance – Hybrid
3 Days in Towson, Hybrid to Towson
Towson, Maryland, United States
The Job:As aLead, 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).
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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.
