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 more than 50,000 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®.
Position Overview
Embedded Software Testing Engineer is responsible for planning, developing, and executing test strategies for embedded software used in power tool products. This role ensures software quality, reliability, safety, and performance through structured validation activities across development and release cycles. The engineer works closely with embedded software, systems, hardware, and quality teams to define test requirements, automate test execution, and support defect resolution. This position plays a key role in strengthening software verification practices by integrating test methods early in development and improving traceability across requirements, test cases, and results. The ideal candidate combines strong embedded systems knowledge with hands-on experience in software testing, debugging, and automation within product development environments.
Job Description.
- Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test procedures for embedded software in power tool applications.
- Validate software functionality, performance, reliability, and system behavior against requirements and design specifications.
- Support unit, integration, system, regression, and white box testing activities across the software lifecycle.
- Design and maintain automated test frameworks, scripts, and tools to improve test efficiency and coverage.
- Collaborate with software, hardware, and systems engineering teams to define test strategies and acceptance criteria.
- Analyze test results, identify defects, support root cause investigations, and verify corrective actions.
- Support hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, bench, and system-level testing where applicable.
- Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and validation results.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of test methods, processes, and quality standards.
- Prepare clear technical documentation, test reports, and validation summaries.
- Mentor junior team members and support best practices in embedded software verification.
- Analyze and reach sound decisions in complex technical situations.
- Embrace cross functional teamwork.
Employee Specifications
- ≥ Bachelor’s degree from accredited electrical or automation engineering college
- 8+ years of experience in embedded software testing, preferably in motor control systems (such as PWM, PID…).
- Proficiency in testing language LabVIEW and programming languages (C/C++) and scripting languages like Python.
- Hands-on experience with testing tools, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and debugging equipment.
- Familiar with embedded software development processes and controls (version control, unit testing, bug tracking).
- Knowledge of units, integration, system, regression, and white box testing
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with internal and oversea team members.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and improve team testing maturity
- Proficient in English, both written and spoken.
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 Lean Academy, Coursera®, and online university.
- Belong: Experience an awesome place to work where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- 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!
We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.
Who We Are
We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.
Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.
What You’ll Also Get
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited electrical or automation engineering college
- 8+ years of experience in embedded software testing
- Experience with motor control systems, such as PWM and PID
- Proficiency in LabVIEW
- Programming experience in C or C++
- Scripting experience with Python
- Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and debugging equipment
- Familiarity with embedded software development processes, version control, unit testing, and bug tracking
- Knowledge of unit, integration, system, regression, and white-box testing
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and improve testing maturity
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. and has not been reviewed or approved by Stanley Black & Decker, Inc..
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Flexible Benefits — A broad U.S. benefits menu with multiple health plan choices, savings programs (including an employee stock purchase plan), tuition assistance, and well‑being extras offers substantial choice and customization. This breadth can bolster total compensation value beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, additional maternity recovery time, and adoption support provide meaningful family‑focused coverage. Time‑off programs and designated holidays further support work‑life needs.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical, dental, and vision options, plus supplemental coverages, EAP access, and prescription‑savings programs reinforce core health coverage. The company indicates it pays most of the cost of health coverage, which can enhance perceived medical value.
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Insights
What We Do
For the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done—and we have since 1843. You repair your home and car with the tools we provide. Your car and your phone are secured with our fasteners. The things you value most can be protected by our security systems. And the roads you drive on, the bridges you cross, the energy you consume, all of these most likely came to you via one of our infrastructure systems. We join forces to bring together the best of the best to create practical, meaningful products and services that make life easier—empowering people to do better, safer, more significant work. Innovation and excellence have powered our success, but we know there’s more we can do for the world and those who make it. Across our businesses, we’re investing in breakthrough innovation and digital excellence, striving for outperformance and increasing our focus on social responsibility. We define success as: delivering value to our customers, colleagues and communities. Our commitment to quality, safety and sustainability helps us on our path to becoming the type of uniquely human-centered global industrial company that keeps every stakeholder in mind, while helping to make the world better.
