diff --git a/hack/.staticcheck_failures b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
index f4036458c03..2b469c9979f 100644
--- a/hack/.staticcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
@@ -131,17 +131,6 @@ test/e2e/apps
 test/e2e/auth
 test/e2e/autoscaling
 test/e2e/common
-test/e2e/framework
-test/e2e/framework/ingress
-test/e2e/framework/kubelet
-test/e2e/framework/node
-test/e2e/framework/pod
-test/e2e/framework/podlogs
-test/e2e/framework/providers/aws
-test/e2e/framework/providers/gce
-test/e2e/framework/psp
-test/e2e/framework/service
-test/e2e/framework/volume
 test/e2e/instrumentation/logging/stackdriver
 test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring
 test/e2e/lifecycle
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/ingress/ingress_utils.go b/test/e2e/framework/ingress/ingress_utils.go
index c265a2e885e..806fff70f41 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/ingress/ingress_utils.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/ingress/ingress_utils.go
@@ -95,12 +95,6 @@ const (
 	// IngressReqTimeout is the timeout on a single http request.
 	IngressReqTimeout = 10 * time.Second
 
-	// healthz port used to verify glbc restarted correctly on the master.
-	glbcHealthzPort = 8086
-
-	// General cloud resource poll timeout (eg: create static ip, firewall etc)
-	cloudResourcePollTimeout = 5 * time.Minute
-
 	// NEGAnnotation is NEG annotation.
 	NEGAnnotation = "cloud.google.com/neg"
 
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/kubelet/stats.go b/test/e2e/framework/kubelet/stats.go
index 0f7461f0971..f3171a1915c 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/kubelet/stats.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/kubelet/stats.go
@@ -304,14 +304,12 @@ func GetOneTimeResourceUsageOnNode(
 	// Process container infos that are relevant to us.
 	containers := containerNames()
 	usageMap := make(ResourceUsagePerContainer, len(containers))
-	observedContainers := []string{}
 	for _, pod := range summary.Pods {
 		for _, container := range pod.Containers {
 			isInteresting := false
 			for _, interestingContainerName := range containers {
 				if container.Name == interestingContainerName {
 					isInteresting = true
-					observedContainers = append(observedContainers, container.Name)
 					break
 				}
 			}
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/networking_utils.go b/test/e2e/framework/networking_utils.go
index e8aaec3269b..b8c37d30a06 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/networking_utils.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/networking_utils.go
@@ -621,18 +621,6 @@ func (config *NetworkingTestConfig) setup(selector map[string]string) {
 	}
 }
 
-func (config *NetworkingTestConfig) cleanup() {
-	nsClient := config.getNamespacesClient()
-	nsList, err := nsClient.List(metav1.ListOptions{})
-	if err == nil {
-		for _, ns := range nsList.Items {
-			if strings.Contains(ns.Name, config.f.BaseName) && ns.Name != config.Namespace {
-				nsClient.Delete(ns.Name, nil)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 // shuffleNodes copies nodes from the specified slice into a copy in random
 // order. It returns a new slice.
 func shuffleNodes(nodes []v1.Node) []v1.Node {
@@ -713,10 +701,6 @@ func (config *NetworkingTestConfig) getServiceClient() coreclientset.ServiceInte
 	return config.f.ClientSet.CoreV1().Services(config.Namespace)
 }
 
-func (config *NetworkingTestConfig) getNamespacesClient() coreclientset.NamespaceInterface {
-	return config.f.ClientSet.CoreV1().Namespaces()
-}
-
 // CheckReachabilityFromPod checks reachability from the specified pod.
 func CheckReachabilityFromPod(expectToBeReachable bool, timeout time.Duration, namespace, pod, target string) {
 	cmd := fmt.Sprintf("wget -T 5 -qO- %q", target)
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/node/resource.go b/test/e2e/framework/node/resource.go
index c15111b7980..88328dbf325 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/node/resource.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/node/resource.go
@@ -96,9 +96,10 @@ func isNodeConditionSetAsExpected(node *v1.Node, conditionType v1.NodeConditionT
 					if !hasNodeControllerTaints {
 						msg = fmt.Sprintf("Condition %s of node %s is %v instead of %t. Reason: %v, message: %v",
 							conditionType, node.Name, cond.Status == v1.ConditionTrue, wantTrue, cond.Reason, cond.Message)
+					} else {
+						msg = fmt.Sprintf("Condition %s of node %s is %v, but Node is tainted by NodeController with %v. Failure",
+							conditionType, node.Name, cond.Status == v1.ConditionTrue, taints)
 					}
-					msg = fmt.Sprintf("Condition %s of node %s is %v, but Node is tainted by NodeController with %v. Failure",
-						conditionType, node.Name, cond.Status == v1.ConditionTrue, taints)
 					if !silent {
 						e2elog.Logf(msg)
 					}
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/pod/resource.go b/test/e2e/framework/pod/resource.go
index 87f86386979..0d3b4b274c1 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/pod/resource.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/pod/resource.go
@@ -58,20 +58,6 @@ func expectNoErrorWithOffset(offset int, err error, explain ...interface{}) {
 	gomega.ExpectWithOffset(1+offset, err).NotTo(gomega.HaveOccurred(), explain...)
 }
 
-// TODO: Move to its own subpkg.
-// expectNoErrorWithRetries checks if an error occurs with the given retry count.
-func expectNoErrorWithRetries(fn func() error, maxRetries int, explain ...interface{}) {
-	var err error
-	for i := 0; i < maxRetries; i++ {
-		err = fn()
-		if err == nil {
-			return
-		}
-		e2elog.Logf("(Attempt %d of %d) Unexpected error occurred: %v", i+1, maxRetries, err)
-	}
-	gomega.ExpectWithOffset(1, err).NotTo(gomega.HaveOccurred(), explain...)
-}
-
 func isElementOf(podUID types.UID, pods *v1.PodList) bool {
 	for _, pod := range pods.Items {
 		if pod.UID == podUID {
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/podlogs/podlogs.go b/test/e2e/framework/podlogs/podlogs.go
index 90911e885fd..cfa7c3e80a2 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/podlogs/podlogs.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/podlogs/podlogs.go
@@ -251,10 +251,10 @@ func WatchPods(ctx context.Context, cs clientset.Interface, ns string, to io.Wri
 						)
 					} else if cst.State.Running != nil {
 						fmt.Fprintf(buffer, "RUNNING")
-					} else if cst.State.Waiting != nil {
+					} else if cst.State.Terminated != nil {
 						fmt.Fprintf(buffer, "TERMINATED: %s - %s",
-							cst.State.Waiting.Reason,
-							cst.State.Waiting.Message,
+							cst.State.Terminated.Reason,
+							cst.State.Terminated.Message,
 						)
 					}
 					fmt.Fprintf(buffer, "\n")
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/providers/aws/aws.go b/test/e2e/framework/providers/aws/aws.go
index 73f7b450ee7..3ed2335507b 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/providers/aws/aws.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/providers/aws/aws.go
@@ -50,13 +50,21 @@ type Provider struct {
 
 // ResizeGroup resizes an instance group
 func (p *Provider) ResizeGroup(group string, size int32) error {
-	client := autoscaling.New(session.New())
+	awsSession, err := session.NewSession()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	client := autoscaling.New(awsSession)
 	return awscloud.ResizeInstanceGroup(client, group, int(size))
 }
 
 // GroupSize returns the size of an instance group
 func (p *Provider) GroupSize(group string) (int, error) {
-	client := autoscaling.New(session.New())
+	awsSession, err := session.NewSession()
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, err
+	}
+	client := autoscaling.New(awsSession)
 	instanceGroup, err := awscloud.DescribeInstanceGroup(client, group)
 	if err != nil {
 		return -1, fmt.Errorf("error describing instance group: %v", err)
@@ -151,5 +159,9 @@ func newAWSClient(zone string) *ec2.EC2 {
 		region := zone[:len(zone)-1]
 		cfg = &aws.Config{Region: aws.String(region)}
 	}
-	return ec2.New(session.New(), cfg)
+	session, err := session.NewSession()
+	if err != nil {
+		e2elog.Logf("Warning: failed to create aws session")
+	}
+	return ec2.New(session, cfg)
 }
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/providers/gce/ingress.go b/test/e2e/framework/providers/gce/ingress.go
index 2da229ef7b9..50f5173f766 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/providers/gce/ingress.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/providers/gce/ingress.go
@@ -70,11 +70,8 @@ type backendType string
 // IngressController manages implementation details of Ingress on GCE/GKE.
 type IngressController struct {
 	Ns           string
-	rcPath       string
 	UID          string
 	staticIPName string
-	rc           *v1.ReplicationController
-	svc          *v1.Service
 	Client       clientset.Interface
 	Cloud        framework.CloudConfig
 }
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/providers/gce/recreate_node.go b/test/e2e/framework/providers/gce/recreate_node.go
index 1ac18ab7811..ba77d71a2d5 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/providers/gce/recreate_node.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/providers/gce/recreate_node.go
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("Recreate [Feature:Recreate]", func() {
 		e2elog.Logf("Got the following nodes before recreate %v", nodeNames(originalNodes))
 
 		ps, err = testutils.NewPodStore(f.ClientSet, systemNamespace, labels.Everything(), fields.Everything())
+		framework.ExpectNoError(err)
 		allPods := ps.List()
 		originalPods := e2epod.FilterNonRestartablePods(allPods)
 		originalPodNames = make([]string, len(originalPods))
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/psp/psp.go b/test/e2e/framework/psp/psp.go
index 18c9b192e8f..e3312b497cc 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/psp/psp.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/psp/psp.go
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ func CreatePrivilegedPSPBinding(kubeClient clientset.Interface, namespace string
 		}
 
 		psp := privilegedPSP(podSecurityPolicyPrivileged)
-		psp, err = kubeClient.PolicyV1beta1().PodSecurityPolicies().Create(psp)
+		_, err = kubeClient.PolicyV1beta1().PodSecurityPolicies().Create(psp)
 		if !apierrs.IsAlreadyExists(err) {
 			ExpectNoError(err, "Failed to create PSP %s", podSecurityPolicyPrivileged)
 		}
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/service/jig.go b/test/e2e/framework/service/jig.go
index 238bb3f9e66..ffcb3239dc9 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/service/jig.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/service/jig.go
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ func (j *TestJig) CreateOnlyLocalNodePortService(namespace, serviceName string,
 func (j *TestJig) CreateOnlyLocalLoadBalancerService(namespace, serviceName string, timeout time.Duration, createPod bool,
 	tweak func(svc *v1.Service)) *v1.Service {
 	ginkgo.By("creating a service " + namespace + "/" + serviceName + " with type=LoadBalancer and ExternalTrafficPolicy=Local")
-	svc := j.CreateTCPServiceOrFail(namespace, func(svc *v1.Service) {
+	j.CreateTCPServiceOrFail(namespace, func(svc *v1.Service) {
 		svc.Spec.Type = v1.ServiceTypeLoadBalancer
 		// We need to turn affinity off for our LB distribution tests
 		svc.Spec.SessionAffinity = v1.ServiceAffinityNone
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ func (j *TestJig) CreateOnlyLocalLoadBalancerService(namespace, serviceName stri
 		j.RunOrFail(namespace, nil)
 	}
 	ginkgo.By("waiting for loadbalancer for service " + namespace + "/" + serviceName)
-	svc = j.WaitForLoadBalancerOrFail(namespace, serviceName, timeout)
+	svc := j.WaitForLoadBalancerOrFail(namespace, serviceName, timeout)
 	j.SanityCheckService(svc, v1.ServiceTypeLoadBalancer)
 	return svc
 }
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ func (j *TestJig) CreateOnlyLocalLoadBalancerService(namespace, serviceName stri
 // for it to acquire an ingress IP.
 func (j *TestJig) CreateLoadBalancerService(namespace, serviceName string, timeout time.Duration, tweak func(svc *v1.Service)) *v1.Service {
 	ginkgo.By("creating a service " + namespace + "/" + serviceName + " with type=LoadBalancer")
-	svc := j.CreateTCPServiceOrFail(namespace, func(svc *v1.Service) {
+	j.CreateTCPServiceOrFail(namespace, func(svc *v1.Service) {
 		svc.Spec.Type = v1.ServiceTypeLoadBalancer
 		// We need to turn affinity off for our LB distribution tests
 		svc.Spec.SessionAffinity = v1.ServiceAffinityNone
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ func (j *TestJig) CreateLoadBalancerService(namespace, serviceName string, timeo
 	})
 
 	ginkgo.By("waiting for loadbalancer for service " + namespace + "/" + serviceName)
-	svc = j.WaitForLoadBalancerOrFail(namespace, serviceName, timeout)
+	svc := j.WaitForLoadBalancerOrFail(namespace, serviceName, timeout)
 	j.SanityCheckService(svc, v1.ServiceTypeLoadBalancer)
 	return svc
 }
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/suites.go b/test/e2e/framework/suites.go
index 97ef26fc2d7..083c129d9c7 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/suites.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/suites.go
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@ import (
 	e2epod "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/pod"
 )
 
-var (
-	cloudConfig = &TestContext.CloudConfig
-)
-
 // SetupSuite is the boilerplate that can be used to setup ginkgo test suites, on the SynchronizedBeforeSuite step.
 // There are certain operations we only want to run once per overall test invocation
 // (such as deleting old namespaces, or verifying that all system pods are running.
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/util.go b/test/e2e/framework/util.go
index eec98bf2790..defad96dc53 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/util.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/util.go
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"syscall"
-	"text/tabwriter"
 	"time"
 
 	"golang.org/x/net/websocket"
@@ -120,9 +119,6 @@ const (
 	// failures caused by leaked resources from a previous test run.
 	NamespaceCleanupTimeout = 15 * time.Minute
 
-	// Some pods can take much longer to get ready due to volume attach/detach latency.
-	slowPodStartTimeout = 15 * time.Minute
-
 	// ServiceStartTimeout is how long to wait for a service endpoint to be resolvable.
 	ServiceStartTimeout = 3 * time.Minute
 
@@ -149,10 +145,6 @@ const (
 	// PodReadyBeforeTimeout is how long pods have to be "ready" when a test begins.
 	PodReadyBeforeTimeout = 5 * time.Minute
 
-	// How long pods have to become scheduled onto nodes
-	podScheduledBeforeTimeout = PodListTimeout + (20 * time.Second)
-
-	podRespondingTimeout = 15 * time.Minute
 	// ClaimProvisionTimeout is how long claims have to become dynamically provisioned.
 	ClaimProvisionTimeout = 5 * time.Minute
 
@@ -214,13 +206,6 @@ var (
 	// For parsing Kubectl version for version-skewed testing.
 	gitVersionRegexp = regexp.MustCompile("GitVersion:\"(v.+?)\"")
 
-	// Slice of regexps for names of pods that have to be running to consider a Node "healthy"
-	requiredPerNodePods = []*regexp.Regexp{
-		regexp.MustCompile(".*kube-proxy.*"),
-		regexp.MustCompile(".*fluentd-elasticsearch.*"),
-		regexp.MustCompile(".*node-problem-detector.*"),
-	}
-
 	// ServeHostnameImage is a serve hostname image name.
 	ServeHostnameImage = imageutils.GetE2EImage(imageutils.Agnhost)
 )
@@ -438,7 +423,7 @@ func getDefaultClusterIPFamily(c clientset.Interface) string {
 // ProviderIs returns true if the provider is included is the providers. Otherwise false.
 func ProviderIs(providers ...string) bool {
 	for _, provider := range providers {
-		if strings.ToLower(provider) == strings.ToLower(TestContext.Provider) {
+		if strings.EqualFold(provider, TestContext.Provider) {
 			return true
 		}
 	}
@@ -448,7 +433,7 @@ func ProviderIs(providers ...string) bool {
 // MasterOSDistroIs returns true if the master OS distro is included in the supportedMasterOsDistros. Otherwise false.
 func MasterOSDistroIs(supportedMasterOsDistros ...string) bool {
 	for _, distro := range supportedMasterOsDistros {
-		if strings.ToLower(distro) == strings.ToLower(TestContext.MasterOSDistro) {
+		if strings.EqualFold(distro, TestContext.MasterOSDistro) {
 			return true
 		}
 	}
@@ -458,7 +443,7 @@ func MasterOSDistroIs(supportedMasterOsDistros ...string) bool {
 // NodeOSDistroIs returns true if the node OS distro is included in the supportedNodeOsDistros. Otherwise false.
 func NodeOSDistroIs(supportedNodeOsDistros ...string) bool {
 	for _, distro := range supportedNodeOsDistros {
-		if strings.ToLower(distro) == strings.ToLower(TestContext.NodeOSDistro) {
+		if strings.EqualFold(distro, TestContext.NodeOSDistro) {
 			return true
 		}
 	}
@@ -522,32 +507,6 @@ func SkipIfMissingResource(dynamicClient dynamic.Interface, gvr schema.GroupVers
 // ProvidersWithSSH are those providers where each node is accessible with SSH
 var ProvidersWithSSH = []string{"gce", "gke", "aws", "local"}
 
-type podCondition func(pod *v1.Pod) (bool, error)
-
-// errorBadPodsStates create error message of basic info of bad pods for debugging.
-func errorBadPodsStates(badPods []v1.Pod, desiredPods int, ns, desiredState string, timeout time.Duration) string {
-	errStr := fmt.Sprintf("%d / %d pods in namespace %q are NOT in %s state in %v\n", len(badPods), desiredPods, ns, desiredState, timeout)
-	// Print bad pods info only if there are fewer than 10 bad pods
-	if len(badPods) > 10 {
-		return errStr + "There are too many bad pods. Please check log for details."
-	}
-
-	buf := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
-	w := tabwriter.NewWriter(buf, 0, 0, 1, ' ', 0)
-	fmt.Fprintln(w, "POD\tNODE\tPHASE\tGRACE\tCONDITIONS")
-	for _, badPod := range badPods {
-		grace := ""
-		if badPod.DeletionGracePeriodSeconds != nil {
-			grace = fmt.Sprintf("%ds", *badPod.DeletionGracePeriodSeconds)
-		}
-		podInfo := fmt.Sprintf("%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%+v",
-			badPod.ObjectMeta.Name, badPod.Spec.NodeName, badPod.Status.Phase, grace, badPod.Status.Conditions)
-		fmt.Fprintln(w, podInfo)
-	}
-	w.Flush()
-	return errStr + buf.String()
-}
-
 // WaitForDaemonSets for all daemonsets in the given namespace to be ready
 // (defined as all but 'allowedNotReadyNodes' pods associated with that
 // daemonset are ready).
@@ -1557,14 +1516,14 @@ func (b KubectlBuilder) ExecOrDie() string {
 
 func isTimeout(err error) bool {
 	switch err := err.(type) {
-	case net.Error:
-		if err.Timeout() {
-			return true
-		}
 	case *url.Error:
 		if err, ok := err.Err.(net.Error); ok && err.Timeout() {
 			return true
 		}
+	case net.Error:
+		if err.Timeout() {
+			return true
+		}
 	}
 	return false
 }
@@ -2472,6 +2431,9 @@ func RestartKubelet(host string) error {
 			sudoPresent = true
 		}
 		sshResult, err = e2essh.SSH("systemctl --version", host, TestContext.Provider)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("Failed to execute command 'systemctl' on host %s with error %v", host, err)
+		}
 		if !strings.Contains(sshResult.Stderr, "command not found") {
 			cmd = "systemctl restart kubelet"
 		} else {
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/volume/fixtures.go b/test/e2e/framework/volume/fixtures.go
index d86ea312da5..fde1c8243fd 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/volume/fixtures.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/volume/fixtures.go
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ func NewGlusterfsServer(cs clientset.Interface, namespace string) (config TestCo
 			},
 		},
 	}
-	endpoints, err := cs.CoreV1().Endpoints(namespace).Create(endpoints)
+	_, err := cs.CoreV1().Endpoints(namespace).Create(endpoints)
 	framework.ExpectNoError(err, "failed to create endpoints for Gluster server")
 
 	return config, pod, ip