The finalists for The European Software Testing Awards 2025 have been announced, underscoring yet another benchmark in the recognition of the best talent, innovation, and excellence across the software testing and quality engineering sectors.
For twelve years, The European Software Testing Awards have been one of the most prestigious accolades in our industry, celebrating companies, teams, and individuals that are changing the notion of quality, efficiency, and innovation. The awards are open to entrants from across the UK and Europe spanning 16+ categories, giving professionals in the industry the chance to showcase their recognitions and achievements.
We are delighted to announce the headline sponsor of this year’s awards as Qualitest; with the support of our Partners, Sogeti, KPMG, Capgemini, NTT Data, TCS, and Interface.
Recognising the Best in Software Testing
Finalists have been announced across the following categories:
- AI Powered Quality Assurance
- Diversity & Inclusion Award – Sponsored by KPMG
- Best Agile Project
- Best Advancing Software Testing Practice
- Best Test Automation Project – Functional
- Best Test Automation Project – Non-Functional
- Best Use of Technology in a Project
- Testing Newcomer of the Year
- Testing Champion of the Year
- Testing Team of the Year
- Testing Leader of the Year
- Best Test Project in Finance
- Best Test Project in Electronic Communication
- Best Test Project in Public Sector – Sponsored by NTT Data
- Best Test Project in Retail
- Most Innovative Project
- Leading Vendors – Service Delivery and Consulting – Sponsored by Capgemini
- Leading Vendors – Tools & Tech – Sponsored by Sogeti
[Click here to view all finalists]
Meet the Esteemed Judging Panel
The awards would not have been possible without the expert insights and dedication of our esteemed judging panel, chaired by Isaac Álvarez Diz, Associate Director of Quality Assurance Engineering at Novartis.
Our 2025 judging panel includes:
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Charlotte Semp, Director of Technology & Software Assurance, At Smart DCC Home
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Ganesh Practoor, Head of Quality Engineering, Santander UK
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Philip Curran, Director of Quality, ESW
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Paul Kerrison, Director of Digital Engineering, Dunelm
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Abhishek Vijayvargiya, Vice President of Quality Engineering, JP Morgan Chase
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Devender Sharma, Head of Engineering, Quality and AI Excellence, MSE Technology
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Hemanshu Chauhan, Director – QA, DWS, UK
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Logi Krishnamoorthy, Head of Software and Quality Engineering Technology, Selfridges & Co
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Ashley Parsons, Vice President of Solution Architecture, Qualitest Group
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Simon Robinson, Senior Director of Agile Training and Coaching, HSBC
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Stephen McCartney, Chief Architect for EMEA, VML
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our judges for their dedication and expertise in evaluating this year’s outstanding entries.
Join Us for the Gala Celebration
The awards gala night for The European Software Testing Awards will be held on the 18th of November from 6 PM onwards at HAC, London, where industry leaders, innovators, and visionaries will gather to celebrate innovation and excellence in software testing and Quality Engineering.
[Click here to book your seats]
Become a partner for the 2026 Awards
The European Software Testing Awards have continued to serve as a powerful platform for celebrating excellence, showcasing capabilities and building credibility amongst the brightest minds in technology and quality assurance.
[Click here to become a partner]
About our 2025 Partners:
Qualitest – Headline Sponsor
Qualitest is the world’s leading managed services provider of AI-led quality engineering solutions. It helps brands transition through the digital assurance journey and move from conventional functional testing to adopt innovations such as automation, AI, blockchain, and XR.
Qualitest’s core mission is to mitigate business risks associated with digital adoption. It fulfills this through customised quality engineering solutions that leverage Qualitest’s deep, industry-specific knowledge for various sectors, including technology, telecommunications, finance, healthcare, media, utilities, retail, manufacturing, and defence. These scalable solutions protect brands through end-to-end value demonstration with a focus on customer experience and release velocity.
Discover more by visiting https://www.qualitestgroup.com/ Or contact them at: info@qualitestgroup.com
Sogeti – Part of Capgemini
Transforming businesses with tech-driven value, powered by the industry’s best talent. Learn more about them here >> https://www.sogeti.com/
Helping you to achieve real and meaningful business outcomes through:
- Quality Engineering to improve your customers experience and optimise your business performance
- Application Services to build and transform your next-generation applications
KPMG
Changes in technology and regulation have placed increased demands on how we build, test and deliver systems to our clients. We believe successful business outcomes are either constrained or accelerated by your approach to testing and quality management. Better insights on quality require rapid identification of coverage gaps and investment opportunities through testing SMART, testing OFTEN, and testing LESS to:
Accelerate Value Realisation
- Align business/product strategy and test approach
- Collaborate across technical practices and increase automation across the entire pipeline
- Rapid feedback on product reliability and business risk
Manage Technology Risk
- Focus on systemic risk, aligned to market challenges and changes
- Gain insights on coverage to protect against fragility built by over-testing
- Deliver multi-dimensional test approach beyond functional validation
Enable Technology Transformation
- Use operational intelligence to determine governance gaps and redundancies
- Identify opportunities for investment and alignment to market
- Deliver fact-based assessments of delivery capabilities and efficiency gains
KPMG’s award-winning Quality Engineering and Testing Practice delivers innovative software testing solutions that enable our clients to achieve rapid business change with reduced delivery risk. Our unique mix of testing specialists, industry SMEs and “Powered” automation framework can reduce the cost of change by up to 25%.
Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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NTT Data
As a leading business and technology services company, NTT DATA has a long and rich legacy of innovation. Their experience covers closed, R&D-related efforts as well as open innovation in collaboration with startups, academic institutions, and strategic technology and accelerator partners. Using the full complement of their global resources, offerings, capabilities and assets, they enable innovation and growth in their own business and for their clients.
Learn more about them at https://www.nttdata.com/global/en/
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
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