diff --git a/.github/workflows/cypress_workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/cypress_workflow.yml
index 14975e23b17a..4f17a2032aa3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cypress_workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cypress_workflow.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ name: Run cypress tests
 
 # trigger on every PR for all branches
 on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ '**' ]
   pull_request:
     branches: [ '**' ]
     paths-ignore:
@@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-          group: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
+          group: [1, 2, 10, 11]
     container:
       image: docker://opensearchstaging/ci-runner:ci-runner-rockylinux8-opensearch-dashboards-integtest-v2
       options: --user 1001
@@ -81,8 +83,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
-          repository: ${{ env.SOURCE_REPO }}
-          ref: '${{ env.SOURCE_BRANCH }}'
+          repository: ${{ env.SOURCE_REPO || github.repository}}
+          ref: '${{ env.SOURCE_BRANCH || github.base_ref}}'
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v2
@@ -102,6 +104,7 @@ jobs:
         run: node scripts/build_opensearch_dashboards_platform_plugins --no-examples --workers 12
 
       - name: Checkout
+        if: ${{ matrix.group != 10 && matrix.group != 11 }}
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
           path: ${{ env.FTR_PATH }}
@@ -114,7 +117,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "SPEC=${{ inputs.specs }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: Setup spec files
-        if: ${{ inputs.specs == '' }}
+        if: ${{ inputs.specs == '' && matrix.group != 10 && matrix.group != 11 }}
         working-directory: ${{ env.FTR_PATH }}
         shell: bash
         run: |
@@ -124,6 +127,20 @@ jobs:
             FORMATTED_SPEC+="cypress/integration/core-opensearch-dashboards/opensearch-dashboards/${i},"
           done
           echo "SPEC=${FORMATTED_SPEC}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "SPEC=${FORMATTED_SPEC}"
+
+      - name: Setup spec files for Dashboards tests
+        if: ${{ inputs.specs == '' && matrix.group == 10 || matrix.group == 11 }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          IFS="," read -a SPEC_ARRAY <<< $(yarn --silent osd:ciGroup${{ matrix.group }})
+          ADDITIONAL_SPEC=''
+          for i in "${SPEC_ARRAY[@]}"; do
+          ADDITIONAL_SPEC+="cypress/integration/core_opensearch_dashboards/${i},"
+          done
+          SPEC=${ADDITIONAL_SPEC}
+          echo "SPEC=${ADDITIONAL_SPEC}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "SPEC: $SPEC"
 
       - name: Get Cypress version
         id: cypress_version
@@ -142,6 +159,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: npx cypress cache path
 
       - name: Run tests
+        if: ${{ matrix.group != 10 && matrix.group != 11 }}
         uses: cypress-io/github-action@v2
         with:
           working-directory: ${{ env.FTR_PATH }}
@@ -149,6 +167,15 @@ jobs:
           wait-on: 'http://localhost:9200, http://localhost:5601'
           command: yarn cypress:run-without-security --browser ${{ env.CYPRESS_BROWSER }} --spec ${{ env.SPEC }}
 
+      - name: Run tests within Dashboards repo
+        if: ${{ matrix.group == 10 || matrix.group == 11 }}
+        run: |
+          echo "CWD: $(pwd)"
+          node scripts/opensearch snapshot -E cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled=false
+          node scripts/opensearch_dashboards --dev --no-base-path --no-watch --savedObjects.maxImportPayloadBytes=10485760 --server.maxPayloadBytes=1759977 --logging.json=false --data.search.aggs.shardDelay.enabled=true
+          source scripts/cypress_tests.sh
+          run_cypress
+
       # Screenshots are only captured on failure, will change this once we do visual regression tests
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         if: failure()
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dashboards_cypress_workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/dashboards_cypress_workflow.yml
index 7f0a6bb9c3d7..aea790199a9f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dashboards_cypress_workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dashboards_cypress_workflow.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ name: Orchestrator cypress workflow
 run-name: dashboards_cypress_workflow ${{ inputs.UNIQUE_ID != '' && inputs.UNIQUE_ID || '' }} # Unique id number appended to the workflow run-name to reference the run within the orchestrator.
 # Trigger on dispatch event sent from FT repo orchestrator
 on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ '**' ]
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       test_repo:
@@ -41,25 +43,32 @@ env:
   TEST_REPO: ${{ inputs.test_repo != '' && inputs.test_repo || github.repository }}
   TEST_BRANCH: "${{ inputs.test_branch != '' && inputs.test_branch || github.base_ref }}"
   OSD_PATH: 'osd'
-  CYPRESS_BROWSER: 'chromium'
+  CYPRESS_BROWSER: 'electron'
   JOB_ID: ${{ inputs.UNIQUE_ID}}
   OPENSEARCH:  ${{ inputs.OS_URL != '' && inputs.OS_URL  || 'https://ci.opensearch.org/ci/dbc/distribution-build-opensearch/$VERSION/latest/linux/x64/tar/dist/opensearch/opensearch-$VERSION-linux-x64.tar.gz' }}
   DASHBOARDS: ${{ inputs.OSD_URL != '' && inputs.OSD_URL  || 'https://ci.opensearch.org/ci/dbc/distribution-build-opensearch-dashboards/$VERSION/latest/linux/x64/tar/dist/opensearch-dashboards/opensearch-dashboards-$VERSION-linux-x64.tar.gz' }}
   OPENSEARCH_DIR: 'cypress/opensearch'
   DASHBOARDS_DIR: 'cypress/opensearch-dashboards'
   SECURITY_ENABLED: ${{ inputs.SECURITY_ENABLED != '' && inputs.SECURITY_ENABLED || 'false' }}
-  SPEC: 'cypress/integration/core_opensearch_dashboards/*'
 
 jobs:
+  Get-CI-Image-Tag:
+    uses: opensearch-project/opensearch-build/.github/workflows/get-ci-image-tag.yml@main
+    with:
+      product: opensearch-dashboards
+
   cypress-tests:
+    needs: Get-CI-Image-Tag
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        spec_group:
-          [1, 2, 3, 4] # Add more spec files as needed
+        spec_group: [10, 11] # Add more spec files as needed
     container:
-      image: docker://opensearchstaging/ci-runner:ci-runner-rockylinux8-opensearch-dashboards-integtest-v2
-      options: --user 1001
+      # using the same image which is used by opensearch-build team to build the OpenSearch Distribution
+      # this image tag is subject to change as more dependencies and updates will arrive over time
+      image: ${{ needs.Get-CI-Image-Tag.outputs.ci-image-version-linux }}
+      # need to switch to root so that github actions can install runner binary on container without permission issues.
+      options: --user root
     env:
       # prevents extra Cypress installation progress messages
       CI: 1
@@ -70,14 +79,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
-          path: ./${{ env.OSD_PATH }}
           repository: ${{ env.TEST_REPO }}
           ref: '${{ env.TEST_BRANCH }}'
 
       - name: Setup Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version-file: './${{ env.OSD_PATH }}/.nvmrc'
+          node-version-file: '.nvmrc'
           registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
 
       - name: Setup Yarn
@@ -88,73 +96,62 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Setup spec files
         if: ${{ inputs.specs == '' }}
-        working-directory: ${{ env.OSD_PATH }}
         shell: bash
         run: |
           IFS="," read -a SPEC_ARRAY <<< $(yarn --silent osd:ciGroup${{ matrix.spec_group }})
           FORMATTED_SPEC=''
           for i in "${SPEC_ARRAY[@]}"; do
-            FORMATTED_SPEC+="cypress/integration/core-opensearch-dashboards/${i},"
+            FORMATTED_SPEC+="cypress/integration/core_opensearch_dashboards/${i},"
           done
-          echo "SPEC=${FORMATTED_SPEC}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          echo "SPec found: $SPEC"
+          SPEC=${FORMATTED_SPEC}  # Set SPEC to FORMATTED_SPEC
+          echo "SPEC=${SPEC}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "SPEC found: $SPEC"
 
       - name: Get Cypress version
         id: cypress_version
         run: |
-          echo "name=cypress_version::$(cat ./${{ env.OSD_PATH }}/package.json | jq '.devDependencies.cypress' | tr -d '"')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-    
-      - name: Cache Cypress
-        id: cache-cypress
-        uses: actions/cache@v1
-        with:
-          path: ~/.cache/Cypress
-          key: cypress-cache-v2-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('**/package.json') }}
-        env:
-          CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY: ${{ steps.cypress_version.outputs.cypress_version }}
-      - run: npx cypress cache list
-      - run: npx cypress cache path
+          echo "name=cypress_version::$(cat package.json | jq '.devDependencies.cypress' | tr -d '"')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
       - name: Get package version (Linux)
         run: |
-          cd ${{ env.OSD_PATH }}
           echo "VERSION=$(yarn --silent pkg-version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: Run bootstrap
         run: |
-          cd ${{ env.OSD_PATH }}
-          yarn osd bootstrap
+          chown -R 1000:1000 `pwd`
+          su `id -un 1000` -c "source $NVM_DIR/nvm.sh && nvm use && node -v && yarn -v &&
+                               yarn osd bootstrap"
 
       - name: Download and extract Opensearch artifacts
         run: |
           CWD=$(pwd)
           mkdir -p $CWD/${{ env.OPENSEARCH_DIR }}
-          source ${{ env.OSD_PATH }}/scripts/common/utils.sh
+          source scripts/common/utils.sh
           open_artifact $CWD/${{ env.OPENSEARCH_DIR }} ${{ env.OPENSEARCH }}
       
       - name: Download and extract Opensearch Dashboards artifacts
         run: |
           CWD=$(pwd)
           mkdir -p $CWD/${{ env.DASHBOARDS_DIR }}
-          source ${{ env.OSD_PATH }}/scripts/common/utils.sh
+          source scripts/common/utils.sh
           open_artifact $CWD/${{ env.DASHBOARDS_DIR }} ${{ env.DASHBOARDS }}
 
       - name: Run Cypress tests 
         run: |
-          source ${{ env.OSD_PATH }}/scripts/cypress_tests.sh
-          run_dashboards_cypress_tests  
+          chown -R 1000:1000 `pwd`
+          su `id -un 1000` -c "source scripts/cypress_tests.sh && run_dashboards_cypress_tests"
 
       # Screenshots are only captured on failures
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         if: failure()
         with:
           name: osd-cypress-screenshots
-          path: ${{ env.OSD_PATH }}/cypress/screenshots
+          path: cypress/screenshots
           retention-days: 1
       
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         if: always()
         with:
           name: osd-cypress-videos
-          path: ${{ env.OSD_PATH }}/cypress/videos
+          path: cypress/videos
           retention-days: 1
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8523ef59885c..1bf6f640a145 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -80,10 +80,8 @@
     "pkg-version": "scripts/use_node -e \"console.log(require('./package.json').version)\"",
     "cypress:run-without-security": "env TZ=America/Los_Angeles NO_COLOR=1 cypress run --headless --env SECURITY_ENABLED=false",
     "cypress:run-with-security": "env TZ=America/Los_Angeles NO_COLOR=1 cypress run --headless --env SECURITY_ENABLED=true,openSearchUrl=https://localhost:9200,WAIT_FOR_LOADER_BUFFER_MS=500",
-    "osd:ciGroup1": "echo \"\"",
-    "osd:ciGroup2": "echo \"\"",
-    "osd:ciGroup3": "echo \"\"",
-    "osd:ciGroup4": "echo \"dashboard_sanity_test_spec.js\""
+    "osd:ciGroup10": "echo \"dashboard_sanity_test_spec.js\"",
+    "osd:ciGroup11": "echo \"dashboard_sanity_test_spec.js\""
   },
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/scripts/common/opensearch_service.sh b/scripts/common/opensearch_service.sh
index 09f3b5d50c8c..120caee12d26 100755
--- a/scripts/common/opensearch_service.sh
+++ b/scripts/common/opensearch_service.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ function setup_opensearch() {
   cd "$OPENSEARCH_DIR"
   echo "network.host: 0.0.0.0" >> config/opensearch.yml
   echo "discovery.type: single-node" >> config/opensearch.yml
+  echo "cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled: false" >> config/opensearch.yml
   [ $SECURITY_ENABLED == "false" ] && [ -d "plugins/opensearch-security" ] && echo "plugins.security.disabled: true" >> config/opensearch.yml
   # Required for IM
   [ -d "plugins/opensearch-index-management" ] && echo "path.repo: [/tmp]" >> config/opensearch.yml
diff --git a/scripts/cypress_tests.sh b/scripts/cypress_tests.sh
index e4c2cbfc9352..85a9fe0d277e 100644
--- a/scripts/cypress_tests.sh
+++ b/scripts/cypress_tests.sh
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 
 set -e
 
-. $OSD_PATH/scripts/common/utils.sh
-. $OSD_PATH/scripts/common/opensearch_service.sh
-. $OSD_PATH/scripts/common/opensearch_dashboards_service.sh
+. scripts/common/utils.sh
+. scripts/common/opensearch_service.sh
+. scripts/common/opensearch_dashboards_service.sh
 
 CWD=$(pwd)
 CREDENTIAL="admin:myStrongPassword123!"
@@ -67,10 +67,12 @@ function check_status() {
 
 # Starts OpenSearch Dashboards and run tests in the cypress folder
 function run_dashboards_cypress_tests() {
+  run_opensearch
+  cd $CWD
   echo "[ OpenSearch Dashboards setup before it starts... ]"
   setup_dashboards >> /dev/null 2>&1 &
   sleep 100
-  cd "$DASHBOARDS_DIR"
+  cd $CWD/"$DASHBOARDS_DIR"
   if [ -x "./bin/opensearch-dashboards" ]; then
     spawn_process_and_save_PID "./bin/opensearch-dashboards &"
   else
@@ -79,11 +81,11 @@ function run_dashboards_cypress_tests() {
   fi
   check_status $DASHBOARDS_URL $DASHBOARDS_MSG
   # Run cypress tests
+  cd "$CWD"/osd
   run_cypress
 }
 
 function run_cypress() {
-  cd "$CWD"/osd
   echo "SPEC found: $SPEC"
   if [ $SECURITY_ENABLED = "true" ]; then
     echo "run security enabled tests"