diff --git a/test/e2e/apps/statefulset.go b/test/e2e/apps/statefulset.go
index 29b473eb4f7..0c395e4a536 100644
--- a/test/e2e/apps/statefulset.go
+++ b/test/e2e/apps/statefulset.go
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("StatefulSet", func() {
 			e2esset.WaitForRunningAndNotReady(c, *ss.Spec.Replicas, ss)
 			e2esset.WaitForStatusReadyReplicas(c, ss, 0)
 			e2esset.UpdateReplicas(c, ss, 3)
-			e2esset.ConfirmStatefulPodCount(c, 1, ss, 10*time.Second, true)
+			confirmStatefulPodCount(c, 1, ss, 10*time.Second, true)
 
 			ginkgo.By("Scaling up stateful set " + ssName + " to 3 replicas and waiting until all of them will be running in namespace " + ns)
 			e2esset.RestoreHTTPProbe(c, ss)
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("StatefulSet", func() {
 			e2esset.WaitForStatusReadyReplicas(c, ss, 0)
 			e2esset.WaitForRunningAndNotReady(c, 3, ss)
 			e2esset.UpdateReplicas(c, ss, 0)
-			e2esset.ConfirmStatefulPodCount(c, 3, ss, 10*time.Second, true)
+			confirmStatefulPodCount(c, 3, ss, 10*time.Second, true)
 
 			ginkgo.By("Scaling down stateful set " + ssName + " to 0 replicas and waiting until none of pods will run in namespace" + ns)
 			e2esset.RestoreHTTPProbe(c, ss)
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("StatefulSet", func() {
 			e2esset.WaitForRunningAndNotReady(c, *ss.Spec.Replicas, ss)
 			e2esset.WaitForStatusReadyReplicas(c, ss, 0)
 			e2esset.UpdateReplicas(c, ss, 3)
-			e2esset.ConfirmStatefulPodCount(c, 3, ss, 10*time.Second, false)
+			confirmStatefulPodCount(c, 3, ss, 10*time.Second, false)
 
 			ginkgo.By("Scaling up stateful set " + ssName + " to 3 replicas and waiting until all of them will be running in namespace " + ns)
 			e2esset.RestoreHTTPProbe(c, ss)
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("StatefulSet", func() {
 			e2esset.WaitForStatusReadyReplicas(c, ss, 0)
 			e2esset.WaitForRunningAndNotReady(c, 3, ss)
 			e2esset.UpdateReplicas(c, ss, 0)
-			e2esset.ConfirmStatefulPodCount(c, 0, ss, 10*time.Second, false)
+			confirmStatefulPodCount(c, 0, ss, 10*time.Second, false)
 
 			ginkgo.By("Scaling down stateful set " + ssName + " to 0 replicas and waiting until none of pods will run in namespace" + ns)
 			e2esset.RestoreHTTPProbe(c, ss)
@@ -1163,3 +1163,26 @@ func rollbackTest(c clientset.Interface, ns string, ss *appsv1.StatefulSet) {
 			priorRevision))
 	}
 }
+
+// confirmStatefulPodCount asserts that the current number of Pods in ss is count, waiting up to timeout for ss to
+// to scale to count.
+func confirmStatefulPodCount(c clientset.Interface, count int, ss *appsv1.StatefulSet, timeout time.Duration, hard bool) {
+	start := time.Now()
+	deadline := start.Add(timeout)
+	for t := time.Now(); t.Before(deadline); t = time.Now() {
+		podList := e2esset.GetPodList(c, ss)
+		statefulPodCount := len(podList.Items)
+		if statefulPodCount != count {
+			e2epod.LogPodStates(podList.Items)
+			if hard {
+				e2elog.Failf("StatefulSet %v scaled unexpectedly scaled to %d -> %d replicas", ss.Name, count, len(podList.Items))
+			} else {
+				e2elog.Logf("StatefulSet %v has not reached scale %d, at %d", ss.Name, count, statefulPodCount)
+			}
+			time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
+			continue
+		}
+		e2elog.Logf("Verifying statefulset %v doesn't scale past %d for another %+v", ss.Name, count, deadline.Sub(t))
+		time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/statefulset/BUILD b/test/e2e/framework/statefulset/BUILD
index 752509c0651..ce9afbda7aa 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/statefulset/BUILD
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/statefulset/BUILD
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ go_library(
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework/log:go_default_library",
-        "//test/e2e/framework/pod:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/manifest:go_default_library",
         "//test/utils/image:go_default_library",
     ],
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/statefulset/rest.go b/test/e2e/framework/statefulset/rest.go
index c76ab380145..302210f27a1 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/statefulset/rest.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/statefulset/rest.go
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ import (
 	podutil "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/v1/pod"
 	e2efwk "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework"
 	e2elog "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/log"
-	e2epod "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/pod"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/manifest"
 )
 
@@ -220,29 +219,6 @@ func Restart(c clientset.Interface, ss *appsv1.StatefulSet) {
 	update(c, ss.Namespace, ss.Name, func(ss *appsv1.StatefulSet) { *(ss.Spec.Replicas) = oldReplicas })
 }
 
-// ConfirmStatefulPodCount asserts that the current number of Pods in ss is count, waiting up to timeout for ss to
-// to scale to count.
-func ConfirmStatefulPodCount(c clientset.Interface, count int, ss *appsv1.StatefulSet, timeout time.Duration, hard bool) {
-	start := time.Now()
-	deadline := start.Add(timeout)
-	for t := time.Now(); t.Before(deadline); t = time.Now() {
-		podList := GetPodList(c, ss)
-		statefulPodCount := len(podList.Items)
-		if statefulPodCount != count {
-			e2epod.LogPodStates(podList.Items)
-			if hard {
-				e2elog.Failf("StatefulSet %v scaled unexpectedly scaled to %d -> %d replicas", ss.Name, count, len(podList.Items))
-			} else {
-				e2elog.Logf("StatefulSet %v has not reached scale %d, at %d", ss.Name, count, statefulPodCount)
-			}
-			time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
-			continue
-		}
-		e2elog.Logf("Verifying statefulset %v doesn't scale past %d for another %+v", ss.Name, count, deadline.Sub(t))
-		time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
-	}
-}
-
 // GetStatefulSet gets the StatefulSet named name in namespace.
 func GetStatefulSet(c clientset.Interface, namespace, name string) *appsv1.StatefulSet {
 	ss, err := c.AppsV1().StatefulSets(namespace).Get(name, metav1.GetOptions{})