/quality-gates

name: quality-gates
description: Use when establishing tests, monitoring, and incident response for analytics
  models.

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.

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