diff --git a/docs/contributing/test_versions.md b/docs/contributing/test_versions.md
index 33a9ecc8a7..988721d10f 100644
--- a/docs/contributing/test_versions.md
+++ b/docs/contributing/test_versions.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ When a PR builds successfully, you can test the PR using the following script:
 ```sh
 pr=13208
 sha=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/pulls/${pr} | jq -r .head.sha )
-export KOPS_BASE_URL=https://storage.googleapis.com/kops-ci/pulls/pull-kops-e2e-kubernetes-aws/pull-v1.24.0-alpha.2-68-g8a1070a1b9
+export KOPS_BASE_URL="https://storage.googleapis.com/kops-ci/pulls/pull-kops-e2e-kubernetes-aws/pull-${sha}"
 wget -q "$KOPS_BASE_URL/$(go env GOOS)/$(go env GOARCH)/kops"
 chmod +x ./kops
 ./kops version
diff --git a/tests/e2e/kubetest2-kops/deployer/build.go b/tests/e2e/kubetest2-kops/deployer/build.go
index 3dbf98ff72..a813f4aca9 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/kubetest2-kops/deployer/build.go
+++ b/tests/e2e/kubetest2-kops/deployer/build.go
@@ -92,14 +92,17 @@ func defaultStageLocation(kopsRoot string) (string, error) {
 		jobName = defaultJobName
 	}
 
-	cmd := exec.Command("git", "rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD")
-	cmd.SetDir(kopsRoot)
-	output, err := exec.CombinedOutputLines(cmd)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	} else if len(output) != 1 {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("unexpected output from git describe: %v", output)
+	sha := os.Getenv("PULL_PULL_SHA")
+	if sha == "" {
+		cmd := exec.Command("git", "rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD")
+		cmd.SetDir(kopsRoot)
+		output, err := exec.CombinedOutputLines(cmd)
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		} else if len(output) != 1 {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("unexpected output from git describe: %v", output)
+		}
+		sha = strings.TrimSpace(output[0])
 	}
-	sha := strings.TrimSpace(output[0])
 	return fmt.Sprintf(defaultGCSPath, jobName, sha), nil
 }