Zhenchao Liu
高级测试开发工程师 at 红帽
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolZhenchao Liu is a senior test development engineer based in Beijing with over nine years validating complex storage, virtualization, and HA cluster systems and three years of hands-on HPC development experience. He combines deep test automation expertise (Python, Shell, C) with strong troubleshooting and team leadership skills, having driven QE efforts at Red Hat, Oracle, Huawei, IBM and Symantec. His open-source contributions include significant backend work on avocado-framework and tp-qemu, adding multi-backend storage support (Ceph, Gluster, iSCSI) and robust VM image handling features that improved real-world VM installation and resilience. Comfortable across Solaris and Linux environments, he brings a pragmatic systems perspective from both appliance/NAS and large-scale HPC energy-saving projects, and is known for translating complex distributed storage behaviors into reliable automated tests.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Sichuan University
Github Skills (17)
device-management10
back-end-development10
python10
qemu10
testing10
blockdevice10
virtualization10
iscsi9
json9
glusterfs9
test-automation9
ceph9
networking7
libvirt6
automations5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
autotest/tp-qemu
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Virt Test Provider for qemu and other related virtualization backends
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:975 reviews, 450 commits, 487 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zhenchao primarily contributed to the testing and development of features related to remote image handling, particularly for the QEMU environment. Their commits focused on implementing support for snapshotting, converting, and multiwrite operations for various storage backends like Ceph, Gluster, and iSCSI. They also added new tests and test cases for existing functionalities, including scenarios for network interruption and disk manipulation within a guest environment. This indicates a focus on ensuring the reliability and functionality of the virtualization backend.
qemuvirtualizationpythontesting
avocado-framework/avocado-vt
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
Avocado VT Plugin
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:275 reviews, 24 commits, 59 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Zhenchao primarily contributed to enhancing the Avocado VT Plugin, adding support for various storage backends, including iSCSI, Ceph, Gluster, NBD, SSH, and libcurl. They implemented features to access these storage solutions directly, enabling VM installation and management. Furthermore, the user refactored and improved existing storage-related code, adding support for multiple images and secret objects, as well as adding a qemu monitor block export capability.
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