Liv Dywan is a seasoned QA automation tool developer with 18 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining test infrastructure and backend systems, currently driving openQA feature development and production reliability at SUSE. Self-taught and pragmatic, she blends test automation, backend engineering and DevOps—having contributed to prominent open-source projects like openQA, os-autoinst and Canonical’s snapcraft—where she improved container builds, cross-compilation workflows and robust error handling. Comfortable across C++, Python and QA tooling, she has a track record of making developer and QA workflows more productive, plus experience as a SCRUM master and backup team lead. A free-software enthusiast based in the Cologne–Bonn region, she balances rigorous engineering with a curious, experiment-first approach to problem solving.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Esperanto
Contributions:475 reviews, 58 commits, 91 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Liv primarily contributed to the test automation aspects of the `os-autoinst/os-autoinst` repository. Their work focused on enhancing the backend functionality, specifically adding features for state management during backend termination. They consistently implemented improvements across different files to use diagnostic messaging within the `bmwqemu` namespace, ensuring consistency throughout the codebase. The user also addressed deprecation warnings related to timeout settings within the test environment.
Contributions:1353 reviews, 359 commits, 484 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Liv primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the openQA project, particularly concerning job templates. They implemented features for YAML-based job template management, including creating, updating, and expanding templates. They also focused on test automation by developing tests for the new YAML features and fixing issues in audit logs.
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