Finnish Testing Meetup Group get together October 2025 Helsinki edition

Welcome to the Finnish Testing Meetup Group
October 2025 Helsinki edition!

Fall semester continues with yet another great event learning together about testing and quality assurance and meet old & new colleagues.

Host
Meetup October Helsinki edition is hosted by Wolt.
Hosts from Wolt will be:

• Pekka Pönkänen
• Phuong Tran

Venue:
Wolt Oy, Pohjoinen Rautatienkatu 21, 00100 Helsinki

Event program:
17:00-17:30 Arrival, refreshments and mingling
17:30-17:45 Opening words
17:45-18:30 Presentation 1 + questions & discussions
18:30-19:00 Refreshments and mingling
19:00-19:45 Presentation 2 + questions & discussions
19:45-20:30 mingling, discussions and networking
20:30 Venue cleared

Let's be polite:
Please respect host and arrival timeslot.
Host will be asking participants to register their names to a guest list

Please remember to update your RVSP in time case you cannot participate. It should be easy for you to know well in advance if you cannot participate but it may be very difficult for people on waitlist to clear time for joining in the last minutes before the event.

Presentations:
In this session we will have two presentations from:

1. Jamina Pöllänen from OP Financial Group
2. Sami Söderblom from Qlarify

Jamina's presentation
Title: From Trainee to Lead: Lessons Learned from a QA Journey
Abstract: How do you grow from knowing nothing about IT to becoming a QA chapter lead in just a few years, and what can that journey teach us about testing and quality?

I’ll share my path from trainee to senior to chapter lead, including impostor syndrome, mistakes, and lessons learned that have shaped my thinking. Along the way you will hear about the challenges of starting test automation from scratch, learning what sets great testing apart from average and how mentoring others taught me as much as any certification ever could.
Most importantly, we’ll explore what quality really means in practice and how curiosity, persistence and community can shape a career in QA.

Sami's presentation
Title: Flipping The Script: QA Teams Still Matter
Abstract:

NOTE: This session is a "closed beta" type of session where audience role is essential in creating discussion and also shaping the content of this talk which will be presented later in a testing conference.

When the whole world warns about the risks of building dedicated QA teams, you naturally agree. Experts, books, and conferences like Agile Testing Days all say the same: It is an antipattern that harms company's ability to build something of quality. It would be crazy to disagree, right?
Well, I did.
For the past years I've been focusing on building units that employ the nation's best quality advocates (QA) - people who advocate everything that has a positive impact on quality. These people operate within the teams, but the real impact from going beyond that and into the organisation. Into leadership, culture, strategy, alignment, you name it.
In this talk I'll share how my people and I did this in some of the biggest contexts in the Nordics, including biggest private employer in Finland. We applied familiar models such as Lisa Crispin's and Janet Gregory's holistic testing model, Dan Ashby's quality model, and much more. Delivering unprecedented results and earning significant recognition along the way.
Come see what happens when you challenge the hype, and succeed.

Warmly welcoming you all again,

Brgds FTMG organizers ;
Nina, Szilard, Jani and Mikko