Dave Westerveld is an experience test developer and has been involved in the testing of many different projects ranging from well-established products, to helping with the early stages of major new initiatives. He is experienced in test automation at various levels of the product including UI and API testing. He has a desire to see teams efficiently producing high value software and is enthusiastic about understanding how to help teams and testers improve in their ability to ship high quality software.
 
Currently, Dave works as a test developer at D2L, owner of the world’s first integrated learning platform. In this role he has had the opportunity to learn a lot about services based architecture and APIs and how to test them in the real world. As an employee at an educational company, Dave has a passion for sharing what he has learned with others. He is also passionate about the importance of producing good quality software.