Introduction
HI GOOD MORNING,
      MY Name is Vishal koundal, I HAVE AROUND 3.10 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN TESTING
       PLATFORM INCLUDES FUNCTIONAL,DB & ETL TESTING.
      I WORKED AS A QA ENGINEER IN JR BETA SOFT Technologies pvt ltd Noida
      I HAVE GOOD EXPERIENCE IN WORKING WITH PROJECTS USING DIFFERENT SDLC
       MODELS LIKE WATERFALL,V-MODEL AND AGILE MODEL.
      I have a EXPERTISE IN WRITING SQL QUERIES FOR DATA VALIDATION BETWEEN SOURCE &
       TARGET IN AN HETEROGENOUS PLATFORM SYSTEM.
      I ALSO GOOD AT VALIDATING INTIAL & INCREMENTAL DATA LOADS IN THE ETL
       PROJECTS and we follow these 2 types of testing in our project.
    Along with this I Have a STRONG KNOWLEDGE IN DWH CONCEPTS
    GOOD HAND ON INFORMATICA POWER CENTER TOOL.
PROJECT :
      COMING TO MY PROJECT MY PROJECT WAS Lowe Retail Stores .Client location is US.
       LOWES is a leader in the grocery retailing industry and it has 2500 stores. It is the largest
       Company in the retailing industry.
      IT IS A WEB APPLICATION WHICH IS MAINLY USED FOR GENERATING BUSINESS
       REPORTS FOR HIGHER MANAGEMENT used in supply chains operations. It has five modules,
       HR & Finance, Retail, EDW & Portal, and Marketing &Merchandising.
      The EDW application in Lowe is supported to load the transactional data and aggregated
       data from each department (Sources) in a store in to the Enterprise data ware house using
       Oracle.
      THESE SOURCES ARE IN DIFFERENT DATA FORMATS LIKE HR & Finance, EDW & Portal
       IS IN SQL SERVER DATABASE, Retail IS IN XL FILES AND Marketing & Merchandising
       DATA IS IN NOTEPAD(TAB LIMITED).
      OUR ETL PROJECT WILL EXTRACT THE DATA FROM THESE DIFFERENT SOURCES
       INTO STAGING AREA AND THEN TRANSFORMS THE DATA TO MEANINGFULL INFO. AS
       PER THE BUSINESS RULES/MAPPING DOCUMENT AND THEN LOADS THE
       TRANSFORMED DATA TO TARGET DB(Oracle)USING ETL TOOL INFORMATICA
       POWER CENTER.
      AS PART OF MY QA VALIDATIONS I WILL BE VERIFYING ALL THE DATA MOVEMENTS
       HAPPENED CORRECTLY OR NOT IN ALL THE LAYERS(EXRACT,TRANSFORM &
       LOAD)USING SQL QUERIES.
Case1:
Suppose dev team developed etl for flat files and the etl flow is basically have DQM checks
(20-30 DQM check it applied on flow ) basically dev team create a flow to applied DQM
checks.
 Initially provide tester a sample records 20-30 records .
What approach you(tester) applied to check it thoroughly or tester need to check dat
Is dev team applied DQM check properly or not?