Shivani Gaba
Beyonnex (Germany)
A tester’s journey in the world of machine learning
Machine learning (ML) has become the epicentre of software in today’s era. Tremendous efforts are put into developing ML-based systems. But what about ensuring the quality of such applications? What role can testers play in this context?
Usually, testing takes a backseat here and testers struggle to find their role and contributions they could make. The perception remains that “It’s machine learning, it cannot be tested”. But is this really the case? If not, how can we break this myth? How can testers make their space in the ML world?
Join Shivani as she explores answers to such questions and many more by sharing her experience of testing ML-based application without having any prior experience of it. She’ll reflect on her motivation, challenges faced, learnings and techniques to test such systems. Get to know how a tester’s skill set like product knowledge, attention to details, thinking out of the box and customer focus can be game changer here. She’ll leave you with tips, tricks and ideas on how to create an impact on quality in such projects
Shivani is currently Engineering Manager at Beyonnex in Germany. She’s an experienced speaker who has delivered sessions in various international conferences. She believes that knowledge sharing boosts up all engaged parties and increases their confidence. It was summer of 2013 when Shivani and “testing” met each other for the first time and have been best friends since then. Holding rich experience in the testing domain, with hands-on experience in all layers of software testing ranging from UI(frontend), API and backend, functional, non-functional, machine learning(ML) mobile testing, ML remains her all-time favourite. As a certified scrum master, working in an agile manner is always her approach. She believes in the idea of spreading her findings about any “new fancy stuff” she learns. She has worked with multiple international teams and brings forward the idea of the whole team contributing for quality. She’s always up for conversation over email, linkedin, Xing, twitter or beer table