diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index ecef0569d3b0..0ee93afad4d8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ jobs:
           # The python3-grpc-tools package in 22.04 is too old
           pip install --user grpcio-tools
 
-          sudo rm -rfv /usr/bin/conda || true
-          PATH=$PATH:/opt/conda/bin make -C backend/python/sentencetransformers
+          make -C backend/python/transformers
 
           # Pre-build piper before we start tests in order to have shared libraries in place
           make sources/go-piper && \
diff --git a/core/http/app_test.go b/core/http/app_test.go
index 6bf1806b4f14..a2e2f7585100 100644
--- a/core/http/app_test.go
+++ b/core/http/app_test.go
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ var _ = Describe("API test", func() {
 
 			application, err := application.New(
 				append(commonOpts,
-					config.WithExternalBackend("huggingface", os.Getenv("HUGGINGFACE_GRPC")),
+					config.WithExternalBackend("transformers", os.Getenv("HUGGINGFACE_GRPC")),
 					config.WithContext(c),
 					config.WithModelPath(modelPath),
 				)...)
diff --git a/tests/models_fixtures/grpc.yaml b/tests/models_fixtures/grpc.yaml
index 31c406ab8484..8c51992056c5 100644
--- a/tests/models_fixtures/grpc.yaml
+++ b/tests/models_fixtures/grpc.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: code-search-ada-code-001
-backend: huggingface
+backend: sentencetransformers
 embeddings: true
 parameters:
   model: all-MiniLM-L6-v2
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