Ben Chou
Senior Software Engineer at SUSE Linux Enterprise, Inc.
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Chou is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in quality engineering and test automation, currently driving Global Quality Engineering at SUSE. He specializes in Linux systems, Perl and Bash scripting, TCP/IP, and C, applying deep firmware and OS-level testing expertise honed since roles at Novell and ATEN. Ben is a consistent open-source contributor to the prominent os-autoinst-distri-opensuse test suite, adding and refining tests for features like FIPS compliance and SSL-related packages to improve reliability across releases. His background combines a master's in Computer Engineering from NTUST with practical QA leadership across APAC, giving him both academic rigor and cross-regional product experience. Known for tackling flaky tests and launch errors, he emphasizes robustness and reproducibility in automated test suites. Based in New Taipei, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset to large-scale Linux quality challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Engineering , Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Engineering , Computer Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
testcase10
sh10
compliance10
script10
shell10
fips10
scripting10
opensuse10
test-automation10
openssl8
git7
gnupg6
gnutls6
clamav6
pg6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse
Mar 2016 - Mar 2022
os-autoinst test cases for openSUSE
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:544 reviews, 73 commits, 78 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributes to the `os-autoinst-distri-opensuse` repository by adding and modifying test cases related to openSUSE systems. Their work involves creating new tests, fixing existing ones, and updating test configurations to ensure accurate testing of various features, including FIPS compliance and software installations. The user focuses on enhancing the test suite by adding test cases for new features like w3m_https, hexchat_ssl, and dirmngr, and incorporating version checks. Furthermore, they consistently refine existing tests, such as the firefox_nss and x3270_ssl tests, to address launch errors, needles mismatches, and overall test reliability.
opensusetestcase
jouyingbin/hello-world
Feb 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
testingtesting-tools
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