Systems and methods for service vendor onboarding and pre-production artifact validation and functional testing are provided. An example method includes receiving, in an automated test control system in connection with a cellular network, a request for deploying an artifact on the cellular network, generating an artifact profile, a configuration profile, a release note associated with the artifact, performing a validation of the artifact according to a predetermined validation rule, in response to a determination that the artifact is validated, instantiating one or more test environments for the validated artifact, performing a functional test on the artifact within the test environment, and outputting results of the validation and the functional test.