Big Data / ETL

Big Data / ETL

Introduction

Delving into details

KiwiQA’s extensive data testing services encompass many areas, including data quality validation, transformation testing, performance and scalability testing, data security testing, and compatibility testing across different platforms and data sources. Our experts employ industry-leading testing methodologies, tools, and frameworks to ensure thorough coverage and accurate results.

Delving into details

ETL Overview

ETL processes extract data from source systems, perform transformations, and load the it into the target system for analysis.

Data Quality Validation

Our ETL testers verify the extraction of the correct data from source systems, the accuracy of data transformations, and the proper loading of transformed data into the target system. Data quality validation ensures that the data used for analysis and decision-making is reliable and trustworthy.

Transformation and Business Rules Testing

We ensure that data conversions, data type validations, and data enrichment processes are executed correctly during the transformation phase. Testers validate that data mappings are accurate and that calculations or aggregations are performed as intended.

How KiwiQA makes a difference

We drive lasting change

One of our key strengths in considerable data testing is our ability to simulate real-world scenarios and workloads, enabling us to evaluate the system'ssystem's response time, data processing throughput, and scalability under different data volumes and processing loads. This ensures that extensive data systems can handle the demands of real-time data processing and analysis.

Bringing your platform to life

Tests for scalability and speed are essential in large data systems, and KiwiQA is aware of this. We do thorough tests to assess the system's performance under various workloads and data quantities. We aid in maximising the effectiveness of the application by locating and removing performance bottlenecks.

KiwiQA has experience in various sectors, including telecommunications, e-commerce, healthcare, and finance. This enables us to comprehend various domains' unique demands and difficulties and adjust our testing strategy accordingly.

KiwiQA strongly emphasises ongoing education and development. To guarantee our clients obtain top-notch testing services and solutions, we keep up with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in extensive data testing.

Our offering

Heaps of options to choose from

Choose KiwiQA if you want safer and smooth API testing for your software. We provide software testing in the following fields:

Automation Testing

It helps organizations scale and expand its testing process. With us, you can capitalize on this effortlessly for quality results.

Mobile Testing

Our experts check the functionality of the software by employing both manual and automated testing.

Manual Testing

Manual testing requires expertise and thus, at KiwiQA, this is done by our experienced professionals.

Security Testing

Security testing types, like penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, security auditing, etc., are carried out by our professionals to secure your software from malicious codes.

Performance Testing

It is done by us to check the performance of your software. And how much load it can withstand can be checked in this testing.

Code Verification

Our experts perform these tests to ensure your code is resilient and error-free.

Why KiwiQA?

We fit just right

Our focus on data security is paramount in considerable data testing. We assess the data access controls, encryption measures, and compliance with privacy regulations to ensure sensitive data's confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Comprehensive Testing Approach

Comprehensive Testing Approach

KiwiQA adopts a comprehensive approach to significant data testing, covering various aspects such as data quality, data integrity, data transformation, data security, and performance.

Test Automation Capabilities

Test Automation Capabilities

KiwiQA leverages automation tools and frameworks to streamline significant data testing processes. Automation enables quick and efficient testing, reduces human errors, and provides better test coverage for complex, extensive data systems.

Data Security Focus

Data Security Focus

We strongly emphasise data security in significant data testing. We identify potential vulnerabilities and assess data access controls, encryption measures, and compliance with privacy regulations to ensure the security and integrity of sensitive data.

Scalability

Scalability

We ensure you’re ready to handle large-scale data volumes while scaling through in-depth performance testing of the ETL processes. We have a knack for identifying bottlenecks, optimize data pipelines and ensure efficient data processing, even under high-volume scenarios.

Methodology

Methodologies that work

Our methodologies have been formulated after years of scrutinising, learning and developing. Every step is truly a labour of love. The goal is to leverage AI technologies to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and coverage of ETL testing, ultimately improving quality and user experience.

  • Start by understanding the ETL process and the specific requirements of the data transformation.
  • Gather and analyse the ETL requirements, including source data formats, transformation rules, target data formats, and any business or data quality rules.
  • This includes testing data extraction, transformation rules, data quality checks, and data loading.
  • Develop test scenarios and define the expected outcomes for each test case.
  • Prepare test data that represents a variety of scenarios, including valid, invalid, and edge cases.
  • Execute the designed test cases using the prepared test data.
  • Perform data extraction from the source systems, apply transformation rules, and load the transformed data into the target systems.
  • Validate the accuracy and integrity of the transformed data by comparing it with the expected outcomes defined in the test cases.
  • Perform data quality checks to ensure the data meets the defined quality standards.
  • Monitor and record any errors or discrepancies encountered during the ETL process.
  • Report any discrepancies, errors, or anomalies encountered during the ETL testing.
  • Assign appropriate severity levels to the identified defects and track them in a defect management system.
  • Collaborate with the development and ETL teams to investigate and resolve the identified defects.
  • Avail the services of a regression testing company to ensure that the fixes or changes do not introduce new issues.

AI Transformation Road Map

Bringing your platform to life

Transforming ETL practices requires thorough evaluation of the existing workflow, tools and resources. Accordingly, we define the goals and implement best practices for test automation. We also ensure data quality for ensuring reliability of ETL outcomes.

1

Current State Assessment

The first step in transforming ETL testing practices is to assess the current state of the organisation’s ETL testing processes and methodologies. This involves evaluating the existing workflows, tools, and resources for ETL testing. An assessment will provide a clear understanding of the areas that need improvement and serve as a foundation for the transformation roadmap.

2

Define ETL Testing Strategy

Once the current state assessment is complete, defining a comprehensive ETL testing strategy is essential. This strategy should align with the organisation’s goals and industry best practices. Define the objectives, scope, and success criteria for ETL testing. Consider factors like data volumes, data types, and dependencies.

3

Implement Test Automation

Implementing test automation is crucial for ETL testing to improve efficiency, repeatability, and scalability. Design and implement an automated ETL testing framework that aligns with the organisation’s technology stack and ETL processes. Develop reusable test scripts for common ETL scenarios, including data extraction, transformation, quality checks, and integration.

4

Data Quality Management

Data quality is of utmost importance in ETL testing. Enhance data quality management practices within the ETL testing process. Implement data profiling techniques to analyse source and target data’s characteristics, patterns, and quality. Identify data anomalies, inconsistencies, and data quality issues. Organisations can ensure reliable and trustworthy data outcomes from their ETL processes by focusing on data quality management.

Delivering remarkable changes

We deliver outcomes that matter

Partnering with KiwiQA means getting outcomes that help you address your customer's customer's issues and improve your business.

Accurate and Reliable Data

Accurate and Reliable Data

By engaging KiwiQA’s ETL testing service, you can expect improved accuracy and reliability of your data. Our experienced testers can thoroughly validate the data extraction, transformation, and loading processes to ensure data integrity and consistency.

Enhanced Data Quality and Integrity

Enhanced Data Quality and Integrity

KiwiQA can help you identify and address data quality issues, such as data validation errors, data type conversions, and data cleansing requirements.

Improved Performance and Scalability

Improved Performance and Scalability

KiwiQA’s expertise in ETL testing can help you optimise the performance and scalability of your ETL processes. By conducting performance testing and analysing the system’s response under varying loads and data volumes, we can fine-tune the ETL workflows.

bussiness confidence

Business Confidence

Stakeholders can be worry-free about the business outcomes because the decisions made are based on accurate and reliable information. This is made possible with successful ETL testing.

Tools & Technology Intro

Tools & Technology

KiwiQA utilizes advanced testing tools and techniques specifically designed for big data/ETL testing. These tools help in automating the testing process, analysing large volumes of data, detecting anomalies, and ensuring data accuracy and integrity.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Developing a strategy for testing data involves several essential steps. It all begins with an understanding of the architecture data sources and how the data flows within the system. The next crucial phase is test data planning, where we carefully identify the datasets for testing and obtain or generate the data. ,Afterwards, we set up the test environment, ensuring that all required hardware, software and infrastructure were in place. Moving forward, we proceed with designing and executing test cases to validate the quality of the data as its transformations, aggregations and analytics. Finally, we thoroughly analyze the test results. Create reports to identify any issues, track defects, and provide insights for continuous improvement.

There are used tools for testing big data. These tools encompass Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Apache Nifi, Apache Storm and Apache Cassandra. They play a role in overseeing, handling and examining amounts of data within big data environments.

These services concentrate on validating the correctness of aspects, within data systems, such as data ingestion, transformation, processing and analytics. To ensure data accuracy, several checks are performed, including verifying the completeness, consistency, integrity, formatting and adherence to business rules of the data.

Testing data is distinct from testing data because of the specific features found in big data environments. Traditional data testing typically focuses on data within databases. However, big data testing encompasses the examination of quantities in diverse formats (such as structured, semi-structured and unstructured), high-speed data streams and distributed processing across clusters.

Incorporating data testing tools offers advantages. These tools help automate testing tasks, decrease the need for work and enhance efficiency. They enable functions such as generating data comparing data validating data, and analyzing data quality in data environments. By utilizing data testing tools, companies can enhance test coverage detect anomalies or discrepancies in data, validate data transformations and ensure the dependability and precision of insights derived from big data systems.

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North Western University
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Code Clouds
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Rohidas Kharade - Lead Developer , ZingHR

I wanted to personally thank the KiwiQA team for their outstanding efforts in testing Phase-1 of the WhatsApp Chatbot feature for RCloud. Keep up the fantastic work!

Elvin Eldić - Co-Founder & CEO, Shukur

Collaborating with KiwiQA has been pivotal for our fintech platform, Shukur. Their meticulous attention to detail and professionalism throughout the QA process is truly exceptional. With their expertise, every facet of our platform underwent rigorous testing, ensuring no issues slipped through the cracks. We're immensely thankful for KiwiQA's unwavering dedication to quality assurance. Their contribution has been invaluable, and we wholeheartedly endorse their services to anyone seeking top-tier QA support.

John Tooth - CTO

We recently worked with KiwiQA team on a project to perform Load Testing and Security Testing on our environment to get an understanding of our exposure and our system limitations. We ran this as two separate projects and both project leads ran very effectively. We got the outcomes we needed and there was clear communication and flexibility throughout the program. I would recommend KiwiQA team for testing services

Nikhil Goenka - Co-founder

Niranjan & the Kiwi QA team have been excellent. They have a high quality team who has demonstrated great ownership, hustle and have maintained a high quality bar that's akin to the top tech cos. such as Flipkart etc. Would highly recommend Kiwi QA

Natalie Fong - Chief Operating Officer

Finding a good and trustworthy QA service is not easy. I didn’t have any recommendations and searching online gave me thousands of QA service companies. KiwiQA caught my immediate attention as their website explained their QA services in a "healthy" way. So, I contacted Niranjan through LinkedIn. Niranjan gave me the requisite information along with a complete quotation within a few hours after the virtual discussion. We started the partnership in June 2022. In these few months, we are happy with the working attitude, and professionalism of the QA team. We will definitely continue working with them to ensure our platform Wesurance 360 and all new features would be delivered successfully. Thank you, Niranjan for your support!

Mirko Siegel - Chief Technical Officer

KiwiQA has been providing advanced software solution testing services to Genix Ventures Pty Ltd for several years. The services included functional testing as well as load testing and test automation. We were very happy with KiwiQA's services and we can strongly recommend KiwiQA to other companies!

Scott Hunley - Devops Manager

We use KiwiQA for our large custom projects. One of our custom sites their normal flow of automation testing was not going to work. They quickly found and implemented a solution. KiwiQA is very detail oriented and has great communication. They are a pleasure to work with.

Ken Murai - Founder and CEO

We have been working with KiwiQA for several years and really come to rely upon them. They have a terrific team of people, and I rely on them to do a thorough job.

Rebecca VanZutphen - Founder

It was a pleasure to work with Niranjan and his team of dedicated and comprehensive testers. Looking forward to our next engagement with the KiwiQA team, and having Niranjan oversee another successful project for us. A great experience full of support and passion to deliver a great service. Thanks Niranjan!

Apurva Patil - Quality Assurance - Team Leader

Thank you for your all support to the projects in ITFAQ! Really appreciated

Enrico Mareth - Team Lead QA

We used KiwiQA for a security audit of one of our web platforms. It was a very good cooperation and with the excellent reporting and risk assessment we were able to effectively fix existing vulnerabilities.

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