AI and Big Data Testing
Future Visible is a highly specialised consultancy that is at the forefront of testing Artificial Intelligence, machine learning models, MLOps and Big Data Pipelines.With over ten years experience in Machine Learning, AI and Big Data solutions including the emerging world of Gen AI Large Language Models, and having delivered testing solutions for a number of prestigious clients including the UK government, Future Visible is your vital testing consultancy - a cutting edge consultancy for your cutting edge projects.
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Cloud
Future Visible has worked one and tested deployments on all the major Cloud providers - Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud - on Big Data, Data Warehouse and AI projects. The consultancy has conducted all types of testing in Cloud environments, - component testing, end-to-end, performance and security compliance testing, integrating bespoke test frameworks into CI/CD pipelines dealing with Cloud deployments.Dev-In-Test
If you don't have tests, it doesn't matter if it works, it's still wrong.
Software testing is a mentality far more than it is a series of tool kits.
Years of experience as both an automated tester and test driven developer, as well commercial use of a very wide range of testing methodologies and languages gives Future Visible both very powerful insights into the conduct of testing and excellent soft skills for interfacing with both business stakeholders and developers.
Data and GeoScience
Dr. Andrew Tekle-Cadman was educated as an Earth Scientist at Imperial College, London and Leicester University. With extensive experience in geochemical modelling (including 9 papers in first class publications) at both Ph.D. and post-doctoral level, and latterly accrued considerable data science experience. Future Visible brings highly skilled first class scientific experience to testing consultancy.
Big Data Engineer in Test
Garbage in, garbage out. No matter sophisticated your AI, Analytics or ML Ops solution, if your data or MLOps pipeline isn't robust and tested at every level then your efforts may not only be in vain but also destructive.Key to the success of any Big Data project is the quality of your test data. To what extent does it cover real world business scenarios? How to do avoid combinatorial explosion while maintaining an acceptable level of coverage? Do you synthesise data or sanitise Production data (both potentially time-consuming and expensive options)? In what environments should various data be run and when?
Once you have your test data, then building the tests can begin. Future Visible has extensive experience of managing big data test teams, devising test data strategies and architectures. These have included building bespoke test frameworks or using industry-standard vendor products such as DBT.
Future Visible has successfully managed the implementation all Big Data test types. For example component data transformations, end-to-end testing, performance and security compliance testing in the cloud.
AI Engineer in Test
In recent years Future Visible has moved increasingly into the newly emergent world of AI testing, including considerable experience testing Large Language Models such as OpenAI and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Pipelines using frameworks such as DeepEval.Future Visible is therefore one of the very few consultancies with experience in testing Generative AI projects.
Prior to working on Generative AI the consultancy undertook model testing on more traditional models for government clients, concentrating in particularly on scenario-driven testing of the quality and robustness of the model solution (Model Quality and Robustness).
Corporate Clients
Future Visible and it's founder have worked for a very wide range of corporate clients in the media, government, banking, retail, entertainment, employment and publishing industries.
The consultancy has worked both directly with the end client and on other occasions attached of boutique consultancies such as Kainos, Mindera, Amarti and 101 Ways.
This gives the company the reputation, client base and network to leverage future commercial opportunities across an extraordinary array of business sectors.
Leadership and Soft Skills
The most valuable part of testing is not writing tests or test frameworks, but bringing people with you on the quality journey: testing must become a whole team endeavour, or the project will ultimately fail.
Future Visible brings with it extensive experience of Test Leadership and Management of test teams, as well as very deep AGILE transformation experience, working with Scrum Masters and Team Leads to transform the behaviours of a team, patiently but firmly.
A good quality assurance engineer will seek to bring the entire team with him on the testing journey, by interfacing with the business stakeholders and engineering team alike. Often this involves communicating and instructing things they do not, at least initially, wish to hear. A high performing test leader must look for and support these attributes in his subordinates.