Summary
David Gustafson is an experienced QA-focused engineering manager with 14 years blending hands-on test automation, full-stack development, and operational engineering across enterprise and startup environments. Currently leading QA at HG Insights after progressing through senior and staff QA roles, he has a track record of reducing manual effort through automation and improving code quality and test coverage from his time at Walmart Labs and beyond. He pairs practical engineering (Java, Selenium/WebDriver, WinAppDriver, SQL) with systems-level troubleshooting—having managed network hardware, firewalls and server builds earlier in his career—which helps him bridge dev, QA and ops teams. Based in Georgetown, Texas, he’s known for turning manual regression suites into efficient automated pipelines and for shipping proof-of-concept prototypes that accelerate product decisions.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Oregon
Music CIS, Music CIS at Portland State University