This document summarizes the author's experience with data quality assurance procedures during their practicum working on an epidemiological study on autism in Jamaica. Their responsibilities included double data entry in REDCap, data cleaning using SAS to identify discrepancies and missing data, and communicating issues to the Jamaican research team. The final cleaned dataset was uploaded to NDAR following data sharing rules. They gained experience using REDCap and SAS software and learning research processes from basic levels.