RisingSTAR Award Supporters
The software testing community have come together to collectively support new voices in our industry through the RisingSTAR Award. This initiative offers support, mentorship and recognition to rising innovators whose ideas will benefit others in software testing industry, but who are not (yet) widely known in the community. The RisingSTAR winner will be supported with access to expertise from industry mentors known as ‘The Supporters’. This is to help the winner develop their idea and bring it into being.
The RisingSTAR Supporters & Mentors are all experienced testers, each with an incredible network of global connections. They will each provide a half day of mentoring support to the RisingSTAR winner between June 2023 – April 2024. This might be a review of a paper, a brainstorm session, live testing or introducing the winner to key people in their network.
Meet the 2023 RisingSTAR Supporters & Mentors
Jon Bach – USA
Senior Program Manager, Marketing Tech Quality – eBay
Michael Bolton – Canada
Consulting Software Tester – DevelopSense
Mette Bruhn-Pedersen – Denmark
Agile Transformation Leader – Safe Journey
Adonis Celestine – Netherlands
Test Architect – Cognizant
Isabel Evans – UK
Independent Quality & Testing Consultant
Melissa Fisher – UK
Quality Engineering Manager – EasyJet
Kari Kakkonen – Finland
Director, Training and Competences – Knowit
Bart Knaack – Netherlands
Test Advisor – Professional Testing
Rob Lambert – UK
Director – Cultivated Management
James Lyndsay – UK
Principal Consultant – Workroom Productions
Simon Mills – Malta
Experienced exponent of automated software testing & QA
Katja Obring – UK
Quality Engineering Coach – Kato Coaching
Fran O’Hara – Ireland
Director – Inspire Quality Services
Gitte Ottosen – Denmark
Test Manager & Coach – Key2Quality
Amir Shani – Israel
Quality Engineering Lead – Meta
Irja Straus – Croatia
Quality Manager – Gideon
Szilard Szell – Finland
5G DevOps Transformation Lead – Eficode
Henk Van Merode – Netherlands
Test Architect – Air France/KLM
Sanne Visser – Netherlands
TestConsultant – Capgemini