Describe the bug -
Our test suite has critical infrastructure issues that reduce reliability and maintainability:

• Test cases are tightly coupled to a global seed.json file for initial data setup
• Critical paths lack adequate test coverage
• Multiple flaky or skipped tests exist in the codebase
• Test execution time has significantly increased

Expected behavior -

• Tests should be isolated and self-contained, managing their own test data
• Each test suite should use fixtures or factories independent of global seed data
• Changes to production seed data (seed.json) should not affect test stability
• Critical code paths should have comprehensive test coverage
• All tests should be deterministic and pass consistently
• No skipped or flaky tests should exist without documented reasons
• test suite not taking long to finish its execution