Sandbox Test Data Management Standardization

**Objective**

Establish a standardized approach for managing sandbox test data, including data sources, privacy controls, refresh processes, synchronization strategy, ownership, and cost management. The goal is to ensure sandbox environments provide reliable test data while meeting privacy, security, and operational requirements.

**Business Value**

A standardized sandbox data management approach will reduce duplication of effort, improve consistency across products, support testing and development activities, strengthen compliance with privacy and security requirements, and establish a repeatable process for onboarding future products to the platform.

Refer to the topics and discussion points in the [Raid ticket bcgov/entity#786](https://app.zenhub.com/workspaces/raid--work-space-617c3d4cef313f001d715a7c/issues/gh/bcgov-registries/raid/786)

**Areas to look at and make decisions on**

- Sandbox Data Sources and Ownership
- Sandbox Data Privacy and Protection
- Sandbox Data Refresh and Synchronization
- Sandbox Data Masking and Synthetic Data Solution
- Sandbox Test Data Strategy
- Sandbox Cost Management
- Sandbox Data Management Operating Model

**Key Questions Addressed**

How is sandbox data currently managed across products?
What common requirements exist across product teams?
Where do product-specific needs require flexibility?
What controls are required to ensure privacy, security, and compliance?
How should sandbox data be provisioned, refreshed, governed, and maintained?
What standardized process can be adopted across the platform?

**Outcome**

A documented and approved enterprise-level Sandbox Data Management Strategy and Standard Process that:

- Establishes consistent practices across products.
- Supports diverse product use cases through controlled exceptions.
- Improves governance, security, and operational efficiency.
- Provides a repeatable framework for future products onboarding to the modernized platform.

Start with the linked Raid ticket bcgov/entity#786 and review the listed decision areas and key questions. Done means producing a documented and approved enterprise-level Sandbox Data Management Strategy and Standard Process covering data sources, privacy, refresh, masking, ownership, synchronization, cost, and operating model.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.