ETL Testing Training Syllabus

1.What is Data Warehouse?

2.Need for Data Warehouse
3.Introduction to OLTP, ETL and OLAP Systems
4.Difference between OLTP and OLAP
5.Data Warehouse Architecture
6.Data Marts
7.ODS [Operational Data Sto.re]
8.Dimensional Modelling
9.Difference between relation and dimensional modeling
10.Star Schema and Snowflake Schema
11.What is the fact table
12.What is the Dimension table
13.Normalization and De-Normalization
14.ETL architecture.
15.What is ETL and importance of ETL testing
16.How DWH ETL Testing is different from the Application Testing
17.SDLC/STLC in the ETL Projects (ex: V Model, Waterfall model)
18.Challenges in DWH ETL Testing compare to another testing
1-Incompatible and duplicate data.
2-Loss of data during the ETL process.
3-Testers have no privileges to execute ETL jobs on their own.
4-The volume and complexity of data is very huge.
5-Fault in business processes and procedures.
6-Trouble acquiring and building test data.
19.ETL Testing Workflow activities involved
1-Analyze and interpret business requirements/ workflows to Create
estimations
2-Approve requirements and prepare the test plan for the system
testing
3-Prepare the test cases with the help of design documents provided by
the
developer team
4-Execute system testing and integration testing.
5-Best practices to Create quality documentation (Test plans, Test
Scripts, and Test closure summaries)
6-How to detect the bugs in the ETL testing
7-How to report the bugs in the ETL testing
8-How to co-ordinate with the developer team for resolving the defects
20.Types of ETL Testing
1-Data completeness.
2-Data transformation.
3-Data quality.
4-Performance and scalability.
5-Integration testing.
6-User-acceptance testing.
21.SQL Queries for ETL Testing
22.Incremental load testing
23.Initial Load / Full load testing
24.Different ETL tools available in the market
1-Informatica
2-Ab Initio
3-IBM Data stage
25.Power Center Components
1- Designer
2-Repository Manager
3-Workflow Manager
4-Workflow Monitor
 5-Power Center Admin Console
26.Informatica Concepts and Overview
1.Informatica Architecture.
27.SourcesWorking with relational Sources
1.Working with Flat Files
28.Targets
1.Working with Relational Targets
2.Working with Flat file Targets
29.Transformations � Active and Passive Transformations
1. Expression
2.Lookup �Different types of lookup Caches
3.Sequence Generator
4.Filter
5.Joiner
6.Sorter
7.Rank
8.Router
9.Aggregator
10.Source Qualifier
11.Update Strategy
12.Normalizer
13.Union
14.Stored Procedure
15.Slowly Changing Dimension
1A-SCD Type1
2B-SCD Type2 � Date, Flag, and Version
3C-SCD Type3
30.Workflow Manger
1-Creating Reusable tasks
2-Workflows, Worklets & Sessions
3-Tasks
31.Session
32.Decision task
33.Control Task
34.Event wait task
35.Timer task
1-Monitoring workflows and debugging errors
36.Indirect Loading
37.Constraint-based load ordering
38.Target Load plan
39.Worklet, Mapplet, Reusable transformation
40.Migration? ML migration and Folder Copy.
41.Scheduling Workflow
42.Parameter and variables
43.XML Source, Target, and Transformations
44.Performance Tuning
1-Pipeline Partition
2-Dynamic Partition
3-Pushdown optimization
45.Preparation of Test Cases
46.Executing Test case
47.Preparing Sample data
48.Data validation in Source and target
49.Load and performance testing
50.Unit testing Procedures.
51.Error handling procedures.