Test Data Management
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Zero-Query Test Data: Find the right case in seconds
As teams expand test coverage and accelerate delivery cycles, test data stops being a minor operational detail and becomes a critical factor for scalability. For years, QA teams have relied on manual SQL queries to find valid test cases, but this approach introduces delays, fragility, and dependence on expert knowledge. Today, with broader automation and increasingly complex environments, there is a growing need to access the right data in seconds, preserve functional consistency, and reduce environment size through smarter search and subsetting strategies.
In this talk, Ana Victoria Rodríguez will explain why manually generating and locating test data through SQL becomes a bottleneck for modern QA. The talk will show how this model affects automation stability, increases preparation time, and makes it harder to scale quality processes. Using practical examples, Ana will present an approach based on search archetypes and intelligent subsetting, combining referential integrity and business rules to enable lightweight, consistent datasets and on-demand environments, as well as the impact this has on QA, data, and platform teams.
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Ana Victoria Rodríguez
Ana is the principal product engineer at icaria Technology and is passionate about developing software to solve real-world problems. Over the past seven years, she has taken on various roles within the company, including development, customer deployment, and team management. Her experience with clients enables her to understand the specific needs of different industries at each stage of QA. Leveraging this context and her previous knowledge, her goal is to design and develop software that allows companies to completely and correctly manage their test data. This advancement takes companies one step further in their CI/CD processes.