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New Laadun takana episode! For this episode, Sami Sallmén from Qubilea Oy joins us to dive into the most avoided topic in automation: test data. We cover why managing data is often the biggest bottleneck in projects, the limits of AI in generating complex datasets, and why data cleanup is just as critical as creation. Thank you for joining us Sami 🙌 Link in comments.

A nice thing about our weekly office breakfasts is that they are served by admin team people and everyone participates. Everyone can create the menu as they like and this creates nice added excitement, will it be basic or something special 😅? Today it was our CEO Marcus Mattila 's turn. He did a solid job, maybe 8,5/10 🤔 😅

Our vision is to be the greatest quality company. Thus we are always finding ways to improve and provide something extra for our clients. One good example is training our consultancy skills (images here are from our one consultancy training day). Nowadays more and more is required from IT consultants and we definitely want to bring something extra to the table. #consultancytraining #consultancyskills

We are really happy to see so many new people at VALA, a total of 13 since the beginning of the year 🧡! Needless to say, a superb start to the year 🙏

The enrollment has now started to the first ever QA meetup for women and non-binary persons in Finland 🙌 Event details: Date: February 25, 2026 Time: Doors open 4.30 PM, welcoming words at 5 PM Location: VALA’s office, Helsinki Link to the event in comments. #meetup #womenmeetup #non-binarymeetup #qameetup

Busy end to the year! 🙌 Here’s what we got up to: - Quarterly meeting with traditional Christmas porridge - Wrapping gifts for the Joulupuu charity campaign - Tampere team Christmas party - Nordic Banking Forum with Siili - Event with the SOK QA community - Beach volleyball - Weekly brekkies & afterworks

2025 at VALA: Short, sweet, and statistically (mostly) accurate, as some numbers are calculated with a healthy dose of intuition and holiday spirit.😉 Happy New Year! 🥂

At VALA we have many Christmas traditions, like: Sustainable Christmas calendar: Our annual calendar with sustainable prizes like massages and various experiences. Join the Slack channel to participate and guess the possible gifts based on daily tips (preferably do your guessing with memes). Then thumbs up and wish for a hit, the prizes are actually nice 🤞 Christmas porridge: Annual Christmas porridge usually happens at the same time with a company wide quarterly meeting. Good porridge and warm atmosphere 🍚 Joulupuu charity gift campaign: A possibility to do good together. Drive folder for gift ideas for children in need, participants buy something from the list, packaging together at the office ☺️ Paavo Vuorilehto's Office Christmas calendar: An additional calendar to boost good spirits and office activity. Winners raffled daily amongst those at the office 🙌 Since many are already hopping off work today, VALA wishes everyone Happy holidays 🧡! #joulupuu #christmascalendar

Our annual testing trends report is ready! Once again we surveyed QA professionals (81) about the trends of testing at the Testing Assembly seminar, and the results are here. Check the attached images here or the whole blog on our website and let us know your thoughts! #testingtrends2026 #softwaretestingsurvey

🚀 We’re proud to sponsor #RoboCon2026 – the go-to conference for the Robot Framework community! 🎟 Get 20% off: Helsinki → Partner-20-HEL Online → Partner-20-ONL Valid until Jan 18 / Feb 18 🔗 robocon.io We're not only supporting the conference but also once again hosting the legendary After Party — the perfect spot to unwind, connect, and celebrate with the Robot Framework community. 🍻 Join us in Helsinki (or online) — and don’t miss the fun! 👉 robocon.io #RoboCon2026 #RobotFramework #Automation #Testing #Community #Networking #AfterParty #Sponsors