Quality Gates

Analytics Quality Gates Skill

When to Use

• Designing validation steps for new models or dashboards.
• Setting up automated data quality monitoring.
• Running incident reviews after data breaks.

Framework

1. Test Coverage – schema, freshness, unique, referential, accepted values, volume thresholds.
2. Alerting – severity tiers, alert channels, on-call rotation, escalation policies.
3. Incident Response – triage checklist, communication templates, resolution targets.
4. Change Management – approval workflow, rollback plan, audit logging.
5. Postmortems – root cause analysis, remediation tasks, knowledge base updates.

Templates

Templates

• QA Checklist: See assets/qa_checklist.md for validation steps.
• Quality matrix (model/table → tests → owner → SLA).
• Incident playbook (trigger, response steps, communication log).
• Change request form with risk assessment.

Tips

• Tie quality gates to CI/CD or dbt Cloud jobs to block bad deploys.
• Keep alert fatigue low by tuning thresholds.
• Document every incident for future prevention.