Software Engineering Daily · Thursday, October 1, 2026
David Burns shares his career path, starting as a QA hire at a startup in 2006 and progressing through roles at Mozilla for a decade before joining BrowserStack. He emphasizes the learning opportunities and freedom he experienced early in his QA career, which shaped his perspective on software development and testing.
“And this is kind of when CIs were up and coming. So kind of like 2006, because I've been in this industry for a while.”
“And then for the last six years, I've been working at BrowserStack. I started up their open source program office. working with open source projects, supporting all of those, doing developer advocacy, supporting conferences, just trying to get the word out on what's the best way to develop software and test it.”
“And I think it helped my career a lot because I was given a lot of freedom.”