Join Alison Wade as she kicks off Women Who Test at STAREAST 2025. Meet new friends, make valuable networking connections, and prepare to embark upon a day full of enriching experiences for women in the testing field.
Women Who Test
Friday, May 2, 2025 | 8:30am-3:30pm ET
Available as a Free Bonus session for In-Person Registrations Only.
Women Who Test will take place in Orlando and is designed for women to network with other women who work in software testing. It is also a unique way to learn from and be inspired by each other. The program will cover testing topics and will support women’s personal and career journeys and include content like: reengineering your life, growing your personal brand, setting goals, discovering your career superpowers, and how to problem-solve when you are a female in the tech industry where your gender is outnumbered 7:3.
Join women test engineers, managers, CEOs, and consultants for some truly inspiring talks and fascinating group work. Overview of sessions and full descriptions coming soon.
To reserve your seat for Women Who Test, add on this complimentary bonus session to your conference pass upon your in-person registration.
Friday, May 2
It’s Never Too Late to Change Your World
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 9:00am to 10:00am
When is it too late to change your life? When are you too old to take a new direction? I’m Isabel Evans, and in my sixties, I changed my life radically—personally and professionally. When I look back 10 years I see someone unhappy, frustrated, and feeling a failure. In 2015 after years of family and work stress, I had a breakdown. From 2016 to 2019, my recovery included visits to Women Who Test that were fundamental in recovering my own self. Now I am almost 70 - I have a new home, a new life, and a new professional direction, and I am happy! In this presentation, I share my experience of...
Learn MoreThe Power of Collective Experience
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Bring your biggest challenges to this session and tap the wisdom of others. In this immersive session, you will tackle some of the most widely mentioned challenges brought to light from the group. Whether it’s a software testing conundrum, a project setback, a management blocker, a group or team dysfunction or an interpersonal hurdle, all of these can slow our progress and reduce our effectiveness. And when we hunt for options, we all have blind spots and biases that prevent us from thinking out of the box and finding new and different solutions. Typically the best ideas come from...
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Panel—Career Super Powers
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Let’s discuss and define the most important career super powers for women. Hear what industry professionals, leaders, and idea disruptors think the important career super powers are for women in 2025 and beyond.