diff --git a/test/e2e/apps/job.go b/test/e2e/apps/job.go
index d70713067ee..620b1677850 100644
--- a/test/e2e/apps/job.go
+++ b/test/e2e/apps/job.go
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Job", func() {
 		By("Creating a job")
 		job := framework.NewTestJob("succeed", "all-succeed", v1.RestartPolicyNever, parallelism, completions, nil, backoffLimit)
 		job, err := framework.CreateJob(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to create job in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 
 		By("Ensuring job reaches completions")
 		err = framework.WaitForJobComplete(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name, completions)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to ensure job completion in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 	})
 
 	// Pods sometimes fail, but eventually succeed.
@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Job", func() {
 		// test timeout.
 		job := framework.NewTestJob("failOnce", "fail-once-local", v1.RestartPolicyOnFailure, parallelism, completions, nil, backoffLimit)
 		job, err := framework.CreateJob(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to create job in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 
 		By("Ensuring job reaches completions")
 		err = framework.WaitForJobComplete(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name, completions)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to ensure job completion in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 	})
 
 	// Pods sometimes fail, but eventually succeed, after pod restarts
@@ -81,11 +81,11 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Job", func() {
 		// test less flaky, for now.
 		job := framework.NewTestJob("randomlySucceedOrFail", "rand-non-local", v1.RestartPolicyNever, parallelism, 3, nil, 999)
 		job, err := framework.CreateJob(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to create job in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 
 		By("Ensuring job reaches completions")
 		err = framework.WaitForJobComplete(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name, *job.Spec.Completions)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to ensure job completion in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 	})
 
 	It("should exceed active deadline", func() {
@@ -93,28 +93,28 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Job", func() {
 		var activeDeadlineSeconds int64 = 1
 		job := framework.NewTestJob("notTerminate", "exceed-active-deadline", v1.RestartPolicyNever, parallelism, completions, &activeDeadlineSeconds, backoffLimit)
 		job, err := framework.CreateJob(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to create job in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 		By("Ensuring job past active deadline")
 		err = framework.WaitForJobFailure(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name, time.Duration(activeDeadlineSeconds+10)*time.Second, "DeadlineExceeded")
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to ensure job past active deadline in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 	})
 
 	It("should delete a job", func() {
 		By("Creating a job")
 		job := framework.NewTestJob("notTerminate", "foo", v1.RestartPolicyNever, parallelism, completions, nil, backoffLimit)
 		job, err := framework.CreateJob(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to create job in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 
 		By("Ensuring active pods == parallelism")
 		err = framework.WaitForAllJobPodsRunning(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name, parallelism)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to ensure active pods == parallelism in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 
 		By("delete a job")
 		framework.ExpectNoError(framework.DeleteResourceAndWaitForGC(f.ClientSet, batchinternal.Kind("Job"), f.Namespace.Name, job.Name))
 
 		By("Ensuring job was deleted")
 		_, err = framework.GetJob(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name)
-		Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred(), "failed to ensure job %s was deleted in namespace: %s", job.Name, f.Namespace.Name)
 		Expect(errors.IsNotFound(err)).To(BeTrue())
 	})
 
@@ -125,16 +125,16 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Job", func() {
 		// Save Kind since it won't be populated in the returned job.
 		kind := job.Kind
 		job, err := framework.CreateJob(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to create job in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 		job.Kind = kind
 
 		By("Ensuring active pods == parallelism")
 		err = framework.WaitForAllJobPodsRunning(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name, parallelism)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to ensure active pods == parallelism in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 
 		By("Orphaning one of the Job's Pods")
 		pods, err := framework.GetJobPods(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to get PodList for job %s in namespace: %s", job.Name, f.Namespace.Name)
 		Expect(pods.Items).To(HaveLen(int(parallelism)))
 		pod := pods.Items[0]
 		f.PodClient().Update(pod.Name, func(pod *v1.Pod) {
@@ -177,15 +177,15 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Job", func() {
 		backoff := 1
 		job := framework.NewTestJob("fail", "backofflimit", v1.RestartPolicyNever, 1, 1, nil, int32(backoff))
 		job, err := framework.CreateJob(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to create job in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 		By("Ensuring job exceed backofflimit")
 
 		err = framework.WaitForJobFailure(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name, framework.JobTimeout, "BackoffLimitExceeded")
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to ensure job exceed backofflimit in namespace: %s", f.Namespace.Name)
 
 		By(fmt.Sprintf("Checking that %d pod created and status is failed", backoff+1))
 		pods, err := framework.GetJobPods(f.ClientSet, f.Namespace.Name, job.Name)
-		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred(), "failed to get PodList for job %s in namespace: %s", job.Name, f.Namespace.Name)
 		// Expect(pods.Items).To(HaveLen(backoff + 1))
 		// due to NumRequeus not being stable enough, especially with failed status
 		// updates we need to allow more than backoff+1