Overview

• Build an end-to-end QA automation and monitoring platform leveraging Azure DevOps for CI/CD and Grafana for visualization and alerting.
• The project aims to provide automated functional/regression testing, pipeline integration, real-time metrics and dashboards to ensure quality across releases.
• Tagline from the brief: "That which is of , must remain of value value" (preserved as original text from the page).

Objectives & Scope

• Design and implement a test automation framework capable of executing UI, API and integration tests across environments and integrating results into Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Implement monitoring and observability using Grafana dashboards, ingesting test metrics, pipeline health, test coverage and reliability indicators.
• Integrate automated test execution into CI/CD (Azure DevOps) with pass/fail gating, artifact reporting and test-result retention policies.

Responsibilities / Tasks

• Develop automated test suites (UI/API) using appropriate tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium/Playwright, REST test tools, or language-specific test frameworks).
• Create and configure Azure DevOps pipelines to run tests automatically on commits, schedule nightly runs, and publish test results and artifacts.
• Build Grafana dashboards and alerts to display test trends, flakiness, execution times, failure rates and pipeline status; connect data sources (Prometheus, InfluxDB, or Azure Monitor) as needed.
• Implement logging, test reporting, and traceability between test failures and code changes; document how to reproduce and triage failures.

Technical Stack & Skills

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Test Plans) and CI/CD concepts.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Selenium, Playwright, REST clients).
• Knowledge of monitoring/visualization tools (Grafana) and common data sources (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Azure Monitor).
• Ability to work with containerization/virtualization (Docker), version control (Git), and basic scripting to automate setup and test environments.

Expected Deliverables

• A reusable automation framework with sample suites for UI and API tests, integrated into Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Configured Grafana dashboards showing test and pipeline KPIs, with at least a few meaningful alerts and historical trend visualizations.
• Documentation covering setup, how to run tests locally and in CI, dashboard descriptions, and guidelines for maintaining test assets.
• A final report/demonstration showing end-to-end execution: code commit → pipeline → tests → dashboard insights.

Evaluation / Success Criteria

• Successful automated execution of tests in Azure DevOps with clear pass/fail reporting and artifact storage.
• Grafana dashboards reflect meaningful metrics (execution time, failure rate, trend) and trigger alerts for predefined thresholds.
• Clean, maintainable test code and pipelines plus clear documentation enabling team adoption.