Lead Software Engineer in Test

Lead Software Engineer in Test CD Baby — Platform Team About Us CD Baby is a globally recognized leader in the music industry and the first platform to offer artists direct distribution to their fans. Our technology organization has a deep history and a strong foundation, built by long-tenured, dedicated professionals. As we navigate the next era of music technology, we are committed to modernizing our core systems, fostering an agile culture, and leveraging cutting-edge platforms to better serve our artists, partners, and fans worldwide. The Role We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Test to be the senior-most quality voice on CD Baby ’s flagship customer-facing software: the members application our artists use to distribute their music, get paid, and understand their audiences, and the .com marketing site that brings new artists into the platform. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role with broad technical authority over how we test — the engineer who treats quality as a software engineering discipline and builds the practice to prove it. In the near term, you will help carry our customer-facing platform across the finish line for a brand relaunch worthy of CD Baby — standing up the automated coverage, the test data, and the CI/CD gates that let us ship with confidence. Beyond launch, your defining mandate is to architect our testing practice from the ground up: choose the frameworks, build the suites, integrate them into our delivery pipeline, and make automated, AI-augmented testing a first-class capability of the team as our customer-facing stack evolves from a .NET monolith into a modular, API-driven, service-based architecture. This is a role for an engineer who is energized by both the discipline of writing the code that proves our software works every day, and the craft of designing a testing program that scales with the platform underneath it. What You’ll Own Testing Strategy & Practice Define and drive the multi-year evolution of CD Baby ’s