Summary
David Fourney is a founder and principal QA accessibility consultant with 11+ years building prevention-first quality programs for large, public-facing web and mobile platforms. He blends accessibility leadership with practical QA governance—driving release readiness, regression strategy, CI/CD test automation, and distributed team ops—to measurably raise live-platform accessibility from 77% to over 92% at Canada Post. Comfortable in consultancy and in-house roles, he designs scalable QA models for web-first SaaS, fintech, and live-ops environments where accessibility is a strategic advantage. He contributes to ISO and ITU accessibility standards and holds the CPWA designation, bringing standards-driven rigor to product risk management. An early-career software and research background (MSc and PhD-level engineering study) gives him technical depth across development, testing, and data-driven quality improvements.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at BloomTech
Ph.D. Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
English, American Sign Language, French