End-to-end testing is taking your data through a lifecycle of your business process.  Often times this involves manual steps, arbitrary delays, and interacting with different application types.  This is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for most automation frameworks…

Experience automating different application types and staffing the project to be a success.  You also need to ask if your SMEs have the capacity to help with test strategy.  You need to first see what type of test you are trying to automate and how the applications are…