🆕🐥 First Timers Only

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We know that creating a pull request (PR) is a major barrier for new contributors.
The goal of this issue and all other issues labeled by 'Good First Issue' is to help you make your first contribution to Hedera.

👾 Description of the issue

• Certain end-to-end (E2E) tests are not properly closing the testing environment after execution. This can lead to resource leaks and may affect the stability and reliability of subsequent tests.

Proposed Solution:

• To ensure the testing environment is consistently closed, add a defer CloseIntegrationTestEnv() statement in all integration tests (specifically those ending with _e2e_test.go). This will automatically close the environment at the end of each test execution and delete the operator account.

• However, if closing the environment causes a test failure, the environment should remain open to avoid interrupting the test flow. For these cases a follow up issue should be created, containing all the tests' names.

📋 Step by step guide to do a contribution

If you have never contributed to an open source project at GitHub, the following step-by-step guide will introduce you to the workflow. More information and concrete samples for shell commands for each step can be found in our CONTRIBUTING.md file.
A more detailed general documentation of the GitHub PR workflow can be found here.

• Claim this issue: Comment below that you are interested in working on the issue
• Wait for assignment: A community member with the given rights will add you as an assignee of the issue
• Fork the repository: You can do that in GitHub (by simply clicking the 'fork' button).
• Check out the forked repository
• Create a feature branch for the issue. We do not have a hard naming definition for branches but it is best practice to prefix the branch name with the issue id.
• Solve the issue in your branch.
• Commit your changes: Here, it is needed to add sign-off information to the commit to accept the "Developer Certificate of Origin" (https://developercertificate.org). More details can be found in our CONTRIBUTING.md
• Start a Pull Request (PR): We have a pattern for naming pull requests that a GitHub Action checks. We use that pattern to support the creation of automatic release notes.
• Check GitHub Actions: Several GitHub Actions will be triggered automatically for each PR. If a GitHub Action fails and you do not understand the cause of that error do not hesitate to add a comment to the PR and ask the Hedera developer community for support.
• Wait for reviews: Members of the Hedera developer community will review your PR. If a reviewer finds any missing pieces or a problem, he or she will start a discussion with you and describe the next steps for solving the problem.
• You did it 🎉: We will merge the fix in the develop branch. Thanks for being part of the Hedera community as an open-source contributor ❤️

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🤔 Additional Information

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