diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 1ab3bd28..047423cb 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: test/container-build.sh
       - run: test/e2e-kind.sh v1.18.2
       - run: test/e2e-istio.sh
+      - run: test/e2e-istio-dependencies.sh
       - run: test/e2e-istio-tests.sh
       - run: test/e2e-istio-tests-skip-analysis.sh
 
diff --git a/test/e2e-istio-dependencies.sh b/test/e2e-istio-dependencies.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..7bfe93cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e-istio-dependencies.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# This script setups the scenarios for istio tests by creating a Kubernetes namespace, installing the load tester and a test workload (podinfo)
+# Prerequisites: Kubernetes Kind and Istio
+
+set -o errexit
+
+REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+
+echo '>>> Creating test namespace'
+kubectl create namespace test
+kubectl label namespace test istio-injection=enabled
+
+echo '>>> Installing the load tester'
+kubectl apply -k ${REPO_ROOT}/kustomize/tester
+kubectl -n test rollout status deployment/flagger-loadtester
+
+echo '>>> Deploy podinfo'
+kubectl apply -f ${REPO_ROOT}/test/e2e-workload.yaml
diff --git a/test/e2e-istio-tests-skip-analysis.sh b/test/e2e-istio-tests-skip-analysis.sh
index c6f83db6..6cada2eb 100755
--- a/test/e2e-istio-tests-skip-analysis.sh
+++ b/test/e2e-istio-tests-skip-analysis.sh
@@ -3,21 +3,6 @@
 # This script runs e2e tests for when the canary analysis is skipped
 # Prerequisites: Kubernetes Kind and Istio
 
-set -o errexit
-
-REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
-
-echo '>>> Creating test namespace'
-kubectl create namespace test
-kubectl label namespace test istio-injection=enabled
-
-echo '>>> Installing the load tester'
-kubectl apply -k ${REPO_ROOT}/kustomize/tester
-kubectl -n test rollout status deployment/flagger-loadtester
-
-echo '>>> Deploy podinfo'
-kubectl apply -f ${REPO_ROOT}/test/e2e-workload.yaml
-
 echo '>>> Create latency metric template'
 cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
 apiVersion: flagger.app/v1beta1
diff --git a/test/e2e-istio-tests.sh b/test/e2e-istio-tests.sh
index 5dc4732c..dee46829 100755
--- a/test/e2e-istio-tests.sh
+++ b/test/e2e-istio-tests.sh
@@ -3,21 +3,6 @@
 # This script runs e2e tests for Canary, B/G and A/B initialization, analysis and promotion
 # Prerequisites: Kubernetes Kind and Istio
 
-set -o errexit
-
-REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
-
-echo '>>> Creating test namespace'
-kubectl create namespace test
-kubectl label namespace test istio-injection=enabled
-
-echo '>>> Installing the load tester'
-kubectl apply -k ${REPO_ROOT}/kustomize/tester
-kubectl -n test rollout status deployment/flagger-loadtester
-
-echo '>>> Deploy podinfo'
-kubectl apply -f ${REPO_ROOT}/test/e2e-workload.yaml
-
 echo '>>> Create latency metric template'
 cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
 apiVersion: flagger.app/v1beta1