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Home of software quality professionals. Our vision is: Greatest Quality Company in Finland. Our vision is: Inspiring quality, compiling happiness.

VALA Group Ltd is an engineering company specialized in software quality. Because of this, our most important single objective is to provide means for VALA people to be as happy as they wish. We believe that the most important aspects in a happy workplace are: meaningful work, caring about each other, empathy and mental & physical wellbeing.

28/05/2026

Test Automation Tools 2026: An Independent Shortlist of Credible Choices

This piece, written by VALA's Full stack QA Janne Juopperi, is a mammoth! Covering 5 areas of test automation and 4 to 6 tools each, the estimated reading time is 18 min...

If you're looking for an impartial list of credible choices, with comprehensive analysis, this is it!

https://www.valagroup.com/blog/test-automation-tools-comparison-2026/

19/05/2026

What does software testing have to do with climate change?

More than you’d think. Kari Kakkonen joins the latest Laadun takana episode to explain. Thanks for joining us Kari! 🙌

Link in the comments 👇

13/05/2026

What if ”self-direction” was the wrong word all along?

In the latest episode of Valaistumisia työelämästä, serial entrepreneur Jussi Markula argues that self-direction has quietly turned into self-interest in many organizations. The Finnish answer is yhteisöohjautuvuus, or community-led organizing.

In this model, autonomy stays but it is balanced by shared responsibility, transparent decision-making, and open conversations about money, conflict, and power. Fewer managers, more leadership. Jussi shares practical first steps that any team can try this week.💡

Link in the comments.

12/05/2026

April highlights at VALA: A chip tasting afterwork. A bike fixing event. A Haaga-Helia excursion. Bird watching. An office day in Tampere at the Siili office. Playing board games. A Vappu party. And little summer surprises sent to our clients. Good times! 🎉

08/05/2026

The public narrative around AI and job market is somewhat grim at the moment, and perhaps in some industries it is justifiable. But there are also more positive examples. Moreover, the other side of the story is jobs changing, not vanishing.

We can't tell where the future will take us but our estimation is that there will be even more need for quality specialists. At least we've had a great start to the year and recruited many new people at VALA. Our CEO Marcus Mattila wrote in Tivi about these matters, check it out!

30/04/2026

VALA Bike Fix, now for the fourth year in a row.🚴‍♀️🔧

Last week a pro mechanic joined us again to get our bikes ready for summer.

Some traditions are worth keeping.

27/04/2026

AI isn’t a silver bullet for QA.

If your foundation is shaky, AI won't fix it. But if the foundations are solid, AI tools can aid your automation, test coverage, bug-finding and what not.

Thus we updated our AI software testing and QA Tool Listing!

Checkt out the latest listing of tools that help testers in May 2026.

Full infographic with links in our blog.

22/04/2026

In May 2024 we ran an internal survey on estimated efficiency gains of using AI in QA work. In March 2026 we did the same survey again. Here are the results in a nutshell and more in our blog!

21/04/2026

Learning is one of our strategic focus areas. Moreover, client expectations for consultants have risen in recent years; a consultant must bring more to the table than their personal (technical) output. This means listening, understanding, discussing, suggesting and guiding the clients and colleagues. Being a consultant is truly a very demanding task!

That's why we will arrange a consultant training for each VALA consultant this year. Already 30 consultants trained 💪

17/04/2026

AI won’t replace QA professionals. But it will replace the ones who only run test cases. The real value of quality work has always been in critical thinking, problem framing, and understanding what “done” actually means for the business. That part isn’t going anywhere. Mikko Vaha and Sami Söderblom dig into this, and a lot more in the latest episode of Laadun takana!👏

Link in the comments!

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