Dave Hunt
Engineering Manager at Mozilla
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDave Hunt is an Engineering Manager at Mozilla with 16 years of hands-on experience in test automation, front-end development, and systems administration. He progressed from automation engineer roles across Firefox and Firefox OS to leading teams that improve web QA and CI workflows, while remaining an active Selenium contributor. His work spans Selenium, pytest, and multiple Mozilla projects—authoring endurance and functional tests for Gaia and improving CI tooling like Treeherder—demonstrating deep expertise in browser automation and reliable test design. Comfortable across Java, Python, JS and server administration, he pairs technical breadth with practical usability and documentation improvements. Colleagues benefit from his blend of management discipline and long-term contributor perspective on open source test ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Information Technology, Computing Information Technology at John Ruskin College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
unit-testing10
content-management-system10
javascript10
webdriver10
pytest10
selenium10
python10
marionette10
testing10
test-framework10
selenium-ide10
functional-testing10
plugin10
firefox10
content-management10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pytest-dev/pytest-html
Apr 2015 - Jan 2019
Plugin for generating HTML reports for pytest results
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:177 commits, 92 PRs, 171 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to enhancing the test suite for the pytest-html plugin. Their work included adding tests for various test result states (pass, skip, fail, xfail, xpass, setup errors), incorporating regular expressions for more flexible test assertions, and adding tests for HTML report resources and extra content. They also contributed to improving the existing test suite by adding new tests to verify the functionality of the plugin and its features. Furthermore, they addressed and fixed encoding issues within the test suite.
pytestpluginpythonpytest-plugin
SeleniumHQ/www.seleniumhq.org
May 2010 - May 2016
Old Selenium website and docs (deprecated)
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:26 commits, 4 pushes in 6 years
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the SeleniumHQ website, making changes focused on documentation and website content. Their commits included correcting typos, fixing broken links to documentation and subversion repositories, and updating version numbers and download links for Selenium IDE. They also restructured and added content to the website's plugin and support pages.
selenium
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