David Boydell
Senior Tester at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDavid Boydell is a Senior Tester based in London with over a decade of experience specialising in online media and a focused eight-year track record in testing roles at the BBC and leading digital agencies. He champions Exploratory Testing and pairs that investigative mindset with practical technical skills in HTTP, SQL and automated testing tools to uncover edge-case and integration issues quickly. Comfortable moving between hands-on debugging (HTTP-level) and designing repeatable test automation, he has led test teams and shaped quality practices across fast-paced product environments. Known for translating complex web behaviours into clear test strategies, he brings both curiosity and pragmatic engineering rigor to deliver reliable user experiences.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (34)
javascript10
single-page-application10
typescript10
nextjs10
single-page10
single-source10
react10
isomorphic-javascript10
react-component9
netlify8
testing7
xyz6
gatsby6
browser6
cypress6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/cypress-layout
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Verifies the position of HTML elements on your page, for use with cypress.io.
Contributions:66 PRs, 91 pushes, 60 branches in 1 year
positionverifieselementscypresscypress-io
david-boydell/simorgh
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
The BBC's new article (soon... we hope)
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 years 5 months
bbc
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