diff --git a/build/run-e2e-suite.sh b/build/run-e2e-suite.sh
index 15eacc355..ebbac9145 100755
--- a/build/run-e2e-suite.sh
+++ b/build/run-e2e-suite.sh
@@ -88,3 +88,38 @@ kubectl run --rm \
   --overrides='{ "apiVersion": "v1", "spec":{"serviceAccountName": "ingress-nginx-e2e"}}' \
   e2e --image=nginx-ingress-controller:e2e
 
+# Get the junit-reports stored in the configMaps created during e2etests
+echo "Getting the report files out now.."
+reportsDir="test/junitreports"
+reportFileName="report-e2e-test-suite"
+[ ! -e ${reportsDir} ] && mkdir $reportsDir
+cd $reportsDir
+
+# TODO: Seeking Rikatz help here to extract in a loop. Tried things like below without success
+#for cmName in `k get cm -l junitreport=true -o json | jq  '.items[].binaryData | keys[]' | tr '\"' ' '`
+#do
+#
+# kubectl get cm -l junitreport=true -o json | jq -r  '[.items[].binaryData | to_entries[] | {"key": .key, "value": .value  }] | from_entries'
+#
+
+# Below lines successfully extract the report but they are one line per report.
+# We only have 3 ginkgo reports so its ok for now
+# But still, ideally this should be a loop as talked about in comments a few lines above
+kubectl get cm $reportFileName.xml.gz -o "jsonpath={.binaryData['report-e2e-test-suite\.xml\.gz']}" > $reportFileName.xml.gz.base64
+kubectl get cm $reportFileName-serial.xml.gz -o "jsonpath={.binaryData['report-e2e-test-suite-serial\.xml\.gz']}" > $reportFileName-serial.xml.gz.base64
+
+cat $reportFileName.xml.gz.base64 | base64 -d > $reportFileName.xml.gz
+cat $reportFileName-serial.xml.gz.base64 | base64 -d > $reportFileName-serial.xml.gz
+
+gzip -d $reportFileName.xml.gz
+gzip -d $reportFileName-serial.xml.gz
+
+rm *.base64
+cd ../..
+
+# TODO Temporary: if condition to check if the memleak cm exists and only then try the extract for the memleak report
+#
+#kubectl get cm $reportFileName-serial  -o "jsonpath={.data['report-e2e-test-suite-memleak\.xml\.gz']}" > $reportFileName-memleak.base64
+#cat $reportFileName-memleak.base64 | base64 -d > $reportFileName-memleak.xml.gz
+#gzip -d $reportFileName-memleak.xml.gz
+echo "done getting the reports files out.."
diff --git a/test/e2e-image/e2e.sh b/test/e2e-image/e2e.sh
index 24e52bcde..150d2d06e 100755
--- a/test/e2e-image/e2e.sh
+++ b/test/e2e-image/e2e.sh
@@ -34,23 +34,39 @@ ginkgo_args=(
   "-timeout=75m"
 )
 
+# Variable for the prefix of report filenames
+reportFileNamePrefix="report-e2e-test-suite"
+
 echo -e "${BGREEN}Running e2e test suite (FOCUS=${FOCUS})...${NC}"
 ginkgo "${ginkgo_args[@]}"               \
   -focus="${FOCUS}"                  \
   -skip="\[Serial\]|\[MemoryLeak\]"  \
   -nodes="${E2E_NODES}" \
+  --junit-report=$reportFileNamePrefix.xml \
   /e2e.test
+# Create configMap out of a compressed report file for extraction later
 
 echo -e "${BGREEN}Running e2e test suite with tests that require serial execution...${NC}"
 ginkgo "${ginkgo_args[@]}"   \
   -focus="\[Serial\]"    \
   -skip="\[MemoryLeak\]" \
+  --junit-report=$reportFileNamePrefix-serial.xml \
   /e2e.test
+# Create configMap out of a compressed report file for extraction later
 
 if [[ ${E2E_CHECK_LEAKS} != "" ]]; then
   echo -e "${BGREEN}Running e2e test suite with tests that check for memory leaks...${NC}"
   ginkgo "${ginkgo_args[@]}"    \
     -focus="\[MemoryLeak\]" \
     -skip="\[Serial\]" \
+    --junit-report=$reportFileNamePrefix-memleak.xml \
     /e2e.test
+# Create configMap out of a compressed report file for extraction later
 fi
+
+for rFile in `ls $reportFileNamePrefix*` 
+do
+  gzip -k $rFile
+  kubectl create cm $rFile.gz --from-file $rFile.gz
+  kubectl label cm $rFile.gz junitreport=true
+done