10-Step Checklist to Onboard E2E Test Automation Pipelines on Harness CI

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A structured 10-step checklist outlines how engineering teams can onboard end-to-end automation frameworks onto Harness CI. The process begins with replacing infrastructure placeholders in pipeline YAML files, including organization IDs, Kubernetes connectors, and Git connector details. Teams must then configure runtime secrets, import PR validation and nightly regression pipelines, and verify that test artifacts such as JUnit reports and failure screenshots are correctly generated. Automated triggers are set up for pull request smoke tests and nightly regression runs with parallel execution. The onboarding is considered complete once both PR and nightly pipelines pass with green status checks and GitHub branch protection rules are enforced.

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