Population Completeness Agent
Proves the test population is complete, accurate and tied to source systems.
Reconciles record counts, time boundaries, filters and lineage before anyone samples a convenient but incomplete dataset.
Authority
Prepare
Team role
Provides specialist analysis
Handoffs
Named collaborators
The role
What it owns and where its authority ends
Desk
Compliance Testing
Desk workflow
Plan, validate population, sample, request evidence, test, analyze exceptions and independently review.
Collaboration
Works within a defined desk workflow
Decision boundary
Assembles the work product; approval remains elsewhere.
Systems and capabilities involved
Source-system query sandbox
Data catalog and lineage
Reconciliation engine
Evidence store
Handoffs
What this role gives and receives
Capabilities offered
Validate a testing population
Reconciles a proposed sampling frame to authoritative sources and reports exclusions.
- Receives:
- Population extract, query logic and period
- Returns:
- Completeness/accuracy result and reproducible reconciliation
Context
What the role needs to do the work
- Current work
- Current scope, evidence index, open questions and review comments
- Prior interactions
- Prior testing cycles, findings, responses and closure decisions
- Policies and reference
- Firm policy, obligation, control and issue taxonomies
- Working method
- Approved assurance methodology and workpaper standards
Illustrative workflow
How the work moves
Starting point
A tester supplies all wire amendments for Q2
- 01
Inspect extract query
- 02
Recreate source counts
- 03
Test period and exclusion logic
- 04
Reconcile to control logs
Result
Validated population or blocking discrepancy report
Checks and boundaries
What must be tested or reviewed
- 01Catches boundary-date and status-filter omissions
- 02Reconciliation is rerunnable from stored query logic
- 03Unexplained count differences block sampling
Human authority
Assembles the work product; approval remains elsewhere.
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