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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.

26/06/2026

How to use AI in QA, practical case No.1

At the moment, everyone wants practical case examples. What can you do and how? And what kind of results can you expect?

For this need, we've been writing our cases down and we'll share them throughout the summer. Here's the first one!

26/06/2026

Fridays at VALA start with breakfast. Today we took it outside to Esplanadi park😍

24/06/2026

A bad mood spreads fast, and there’s a reason for it.

Negative emotions are about five times more contagious than positive ones, and when our brains switch into threat mode, clear thinking suffers. Kati Vilkki form Reaktor explains why emotions matter at work, and what each of us can do about it.

Thanks for joining us Kati 🙌

🎧 Listen to the full episode (in finnish)

22/06/2026

Every Salesforce transformation has a QA line item. Very few teams can answer the simple CFO question: what do we get back for it? Cost is easy to name. Return is not, so it goes unsaid, and the budget is the first thing to get cut.

This breaks the return into four metrics you can actually point to:
- Defect escape rate to production
- Time to feedback on a code change
- Regression duration before a release
- Mean time to restore

Plus where AI helps, and where it quietly makes the gap worse.
Full breakdown on the blog 👇

https://www.valagroup.com/blog/what-test-automation-actually-returns-in-salesforce-transformations/

18/06/2026

What does accessibility have to do with software testing? More than most teams realise.

In the season finale of ”Laadun takana”, Selko Digital CEO Jere Havo explains why accessible code is also more testable code. We also discuss the European Accessibility Act and the 1.2 million Finns who benefit from accessible services.

A huge thank you to Jere for joining us!

Link in the comments 👇

10/06/2026

We had our VALA summer party last week. Activities, dinner, music and great company. Thanks for joining.❤️

08/06/2026

May in a nutshell: our usual weekly brekkies and afterworks, celebrating vappu, running the Helsinki City Run, the long-awaited ”pärinäperjantai” (aka testing and getting way too caffeinated from energy drinks 😅), and much more!

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.

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