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Holger "Holgi" Sickenberg
Holger Sickenberg is QA Project Manager and in charge of openSUSE testing.
About Holger edit
Holger has 15 years in the industry and 10 years working for the Quality Assurance (QA) of SUSE Linux in Nuremberg, Germany, currently as Project Manager.
During his study of Computer Science at the Fachhochschule Nuremberg, he had his first contact with Linux. After his apprenticeship as a Software Developer, Holgi worked for the Linux development team of Caldera in Erlangen, Germany. When the United Linux project was initiated in 2002 he joined SUSE Linux.
He has been involved in testing Linux systems for 10+ years and at SUSE. In the past his focus has been in developing testing applications. Today he is responsible to manage testing for all SUSE Linux products.
In 2009 he founded the openSUSE Testing Core Team. Since then a group of testers from the openSUSE Community is in charge of testing the distribution.
Private, as a volunteer of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), he is responsible for the World Scout Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI). Organized by him one weekend per year worldwide about 500,000 Scouts get in contact with each other via the Internet.
Talks & Development
- Talk at FOSDEM 2007: Testing the openSUSE Distribution
- Talk at openSUSE Conference 2009: Testing the openSUSE Distribution
- Talk at openSUSE Conference 2010: Testopia, the Bugzilla add-on to get openSUSE tested
- Talk at openSUSE Summit 2012: Best practices for Bugzilla and Bug reporting
- During Novell's 1st Hack Week he was one of the Award Winners with his QA project: PHP library for Testopia API.
