diff --git a/e2e/_screenshot.js b/e2e/_screenshot.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 335ad58a5d5f..000000000000
--- a/e2e/_screenshot.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-"use strict";
-
-const path = require('path');
-const child_process  = require('child_process');
-const mapnik = require('mapnik');
-
-const SHA = process.env.TRAVIS_COMMIT;
-const LFS_BASE_URL = 'https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/angular/material2';
-
-/**
- * Generates a screenshot from the current state of the Protractor test and compares it to the
- * previous stored screenshot.  If the screenshots do not match or if no existing screenshot is
- * found, an error will be thrown.  In both cases, the new screenshot will be stored so that it can
- * be added to git.
- */
-class Screenshot {
-  /**
-   * The filename used to store the screenshot
-   * @returns {string}
-   */
-  get filename() {
-    return this.id
-            .toLowerCase()
-            .replace(/[ :\/]/g, '_')
-            .replace(/[^/a-z0-9_]+/g, '')
-        + '.screenshot.png';
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The full path to the screenshot
-   * @returns {string}
-   */
-  get path() {
-    return path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'screenshots', this.filename);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * @param {string} id A unique identifier used for the screenshot
-   */
-  constructor(id) {
-    this.id   = id;
-    this.url  = `${LFS_BASE_URL}/${SHA}/screenshots/${this.filename}`;
-    browser.takeScreenshot().then(png => this.storeScreenshot(png));
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Stores a local copy of the screenshot for future comparison
-   * @param {string} png The base64-encoded screenshot generated from the current browser state
-   */
-  storeScreenshot(png) {
-    console.info(`[STATUS] Generated new screenshot for "${this.id}"`);
-    this.png = mapnik.Image.fromBytes(new Buffer(png, 'base64'));
-    if (SHA) {
-      this.downloadFromGithub();
-    } else {
-      this.compareScreenshots();
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Since we are using `git-lfs`, screenshots are not necessarily available within our local
-   * directory.  To get around this, we download the latest screenshot from Github.
-   */
-  downloadFromGithub() {
-    console.info(`[STATUS] Downloading screenshot from Github: ${this.url} => ${this.path}`);
-    child_process.execSync(`curl ${this.url} > "${this.path}"`);
-    this.compareScreenshots();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Compares the generated screenshot to the existing screenshot.  If it does not match, an error
-   * will be thrown.
-   */
-  compareScreenshots() {
-    console.info(`[STATUS] Comparing screenshots`);
-    try {
-      let referenceScreenshot = mapnik.Image.open(this.path);
-      this.overwriteExistingScreenshot();
-      if (referenceScreenshot.compare(this.png)) {
-        throw `screenshot "${this.id}" has changed.`;
-      } else {
-        console.info('[STATUS] Screenshot has not changed');
-      }
-    } catch (e) {
-      console.info('[STATUS] Unable to manually load screenshot, skipping comparison');
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Replaces the existing screenshot with the newly generated one.
-   */
-  overwriteExistingScreenshot() {
-    console.info(`[STATUS] Saving new screenshot`);
-    this.png.save(this.path);
-  }
-}
-
-module.exports = (id) => new Screenshot(id);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/e2e/index.e2e.js b/e2e/index.e2e.js
index e35e89e41291..a996617b7a10 100644
--- a/e2e/index.e2e.js
+++ b/e2e/index.e2e.js
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-const screenshot = require('./_screenshot.js');
-
 describe('hello, protractor', function () {
   describe('index', function () {
     browser.get('/');
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4109a4de647d..ae1566bcd647 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "tslint": "tslint -c tslint.json 'src/**/*.ts'",
     "typings": "typings install --ambient",
     "postinstall": "npm run typings",
-    "e2e": "protractor ./protractor.conf.js",
+    "e2e": "protractor test/protractor.conf.js",
     "inline-resources": "gulp inline-resources"
   },
   "version": "2.0.0-alpha.1",
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
     "angular2": "2.0.0-beta.12",
     "es6-promise": "^3.0.2",
     "es6-shim": "^0.35.0",
-    "mapnik": "^3.5.2",
-    "protractor": "^3.1.1",
     "reflect-metadata": "0.1.2",
     "rxjs": "5.0.0-beta.2",
     "systemjs": "0.19.4",
@@ -60,6 +58,7 @@
     "karma-firefox-launcher": "^0.1.7",
     "karma-jasmine": "^0.3.6",
     "karma-sauce-launcher": "^0.2.14",
+    "protractor": "^3.1.1",
     "strip-ansi": "^3.0.0",
     "symlink-or-copy": "^1.0.1",
     "ts-node": "^0.5.5",
diff --git a/protractor.conf.js b/protractor.conf.js
deleted file mode 100644
index b42c5f3acceb..000000000000
--- a/protractor.conf.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-var key = require('./scripts/sauce/sauce_config.js');
-
-exports.config = {
-  useAllAngular2AppRoots: true,
-  specs: [ './e2e/**/*.e2e.js' ],
-  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:4200',
-  sauceUser: process.env.SAUCE_USERNAME,
-  sauceKey: key,
-  capabilities: {
-    'browserName': 'chrome',
-    'tunnel-identifier': process.env.TRAVIS_JOB_NUMBER,
-    'build': process.env.TRAVIS_JOB_NUMBER,
-    'name': 'Material 2 E2E Tests'
-  }
-};
diff --git a/test/protractor.conf.js b/test/protractor.conf.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c48e62c29db4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/protractor.conf.js
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/**
+ * This file is Node ES6 and will not be translated to Dart.
+ */
+const path = require('path');
+
+const E2E_BASE_URL = process.env['E2E_BASE_URL'] || 'http://localhost:4200';
+const config = {
+  useAllAngular2AppRoots: true,
+  specs: [ path.join(__dirname, '../e2e/**/*.e2e.js') ],
+  baseUrl: E2E_BASE_URL
+};
+
+
+if (process.env['TRAVIS'] !== undefined) {
+  const key = require('../scripts/sauce/sauce_config');
+  config.sauceUser = process.env['SAUCE_USERNAME'];
+  config.sauceKey = key;
+  config.capabilities = {
+    'browserName': 'chrome',
+    'tunnel-identifier': process.env['TRAVIS_JOB_NUMBER'],
+    'build': process.env['TRAVIS_JOB_NUMBER'],
+    'name': 'Material 2 E2E Tests'
+  };
+}
+
+
+exports.config = config;