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Catherine Cruz Agosto

Availity

Catherine Cruz Agosto has found her software engineering experience at Baxter Healthcare and Insitu (a subsidiary of Boeing) to be an excellent foundation for finding more effective and user-friendly approaches to complex technical problems. Catherine has developed more efficient and innovative data quality testing solutions at healthcare intermediary Availity, expanding their automated data quality testing processes to accommodate diverse and dissimilar data sources, facilitating analysis, testing and controls for data integration, analytics, and healthcare data reporting.

Speaker Presentations
Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 1:30pm
Test Techniques
Survival Guide: Taming the Data Quality Beast

As companies scramble to adjust to the demands of an increasingly data-driven world, testers are told “go test data quality” without any guidance as to what that entails or how to go about it. The fact that the data is often a living, flowing ecosystem, rather than just a single object, requires the use of different strategies to gain meaningful insights. Shauna Ayers and Catherine Cruz Agosto guide you through the challenges of data quality and apply a structured approach to analyze, measure, test, and monitor living data sets, and gauge the business impact of data quality issues. Shauna and Catherine define data quality, describe the five goals of data quality management, provide the four pillars of data quality assurance, and show how data flow, scale, and properties interact to build the data quality landscape. Learn how to tame the data quality beast, determine what and how to test, overcome technical obstacles—and emerge with a usable plan of attack.