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A Story: Principal Software Engineer Undermines E2E Test Automation

Not everyone likes to see the success of E2E Test Automation.

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Zhimin Zhan
Sep 15, 2025
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A repost of my past article published on Medium in 2023

A few years ago, within the first week of onboarding at a large financial company, my End-to-End test automation scripts (driving the app in Chrome browser) showed great help to the project team. Business Analysts and Manual Testers used automation (either requested me or self-help, I built an interface for them) to create test data scenarios (cutting time from a typical workflow operation from 40 to 6 minutes).

Someone up in the mangement noticed that. A 3-month Proof of Concept (POC) was created for me to implement an already defined set of E2E Tests. I implemented them in 3 days, yes, 3 days instead of 3 months, using my typical tech stack (Selenium WebDriver + RSpec, run in a BuildWise CT Server).

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