diff --git a/tests/e2e/install-codeflare-sdk.sh b/tests/e2e/install-codeflare-sdk.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..16d84b904
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/e2e/install-codeflare-sdk.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Install Poetry and configure virtualenvs
+pip install poetry
+poetry config virtualenvs.create false
+
+# Clone the CodeFlare SDK repository
+git clone --branch main https://github.com/project-codeflare/codeflare-sdk.git
+cd codeflare-sdk
+
+# Lock dependencies and install them
+poetry lock --no-update
+poetry install --with test,docs
+
+# Return to the previous directory
+cd ..
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/e2e/mnist_raycluster_sdk_test.go b/tests/e2e/mnist_raycluster_sdk_test.go
index e8c76f903..976f54130 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/mnist_raycluster_sdk_test.go
+++ b/tests/e2e/mnist_raycluster_sdk_test.go
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ func TestMNISTRayClusterSDK(t *testing.T) {
 			// MNIST training script
 			"mnist.py": ReadFile(test, "mnist.py"),
 			// SDK Wheel File
-			"codeflare_sdk-0.0.0.dev0-py3-none-any.whl": ReadWhlFile(test, "codeflare_sdk-0.0.0.dev0-py3-none-any.whl"),
+			// codeflare-sdk installation script
+			"install-codeflare-sdk.sh": ReadFile(test, "install-codeflare-sdk.sh"),
+			
+			// "codeflare_sdk-0.0.0.dev0-py3-none-any.whl": ReadWhlFile(test, "codeflare_sdk-0.0.0.dev0-py3-none-any.whl"),
 		},
 		Immutable: Ptr(true),
 	}
@@ -167,7 +170,8 @@ func TestMNISTRayClusterSDK(t *testing.T) {
 							// FIXME: switch to base Python image once the dependency on OpenShift CLI is removed
 							// See https://github.com/project-codeflare/codeflare-sdk/pull/146
 							Image:   "quay.io/opendatahub/notebooks:jupyter-minimal-ubi8-python-3.8-4c8f26e",
-							Command: []string{"/bin/sh", "-c", "pip install /test/codeflare_sdk-0.0.0.dev0-py3-none-any.whl && cp /test/* . && python mnist_raycluster_sdk.py" + " " + namespace.Name},
+							Command: []string{"/bin/sh", "-c", "cp /test/* . && chmod +x install-codeflare-sdk.sh && ./install-codeflare-sdk.sh && python mnist_raycluster_sdk.py" + " " + namespace.Name},
+							// Command: []string{"/bin/sh", "-c", "pip install /test/codeflare_sdk-0.0.0.dev0-py3-none-any.whl && cp /test/* . && python mnist_raycluster_sdk.py" + " " + namespace.Name},
 							VolumeMounts: []corev1.VolumeMount{
 								{
 									Name:      "test",
diff --git a/tests/e2e/support.go b/tests/e2e/support.go
index 7c2d50511..fd0f5a1db 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/support.go
+++ b/tests/e2e/support.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/project-codeflare/codeflare-operator/test/support"
 )
 
-//go:embed *.py *.txt
+//go:embed *.py *.txt *.sh
 var files embed.FS
 
 func ReadFile(t support.Test, fileName string) []byte {