Lead, Quality Software

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®.

As a Lead, Quality Software Performance, you’ll be part of our Construction Technology team working as a hybrid employee.

• 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, Dev Ops, and Product teams to deliver highly scalable and reliable applications.

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 Type Script for development of complex performance test simulations.
• Proficiency with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, or Open Telemetry.
• 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, Dev Ops, and Product teams.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.

• 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…