diff --git a/octavia_tempest_plugin/common/barbican_client_mgr.py b/octavia_tempest_plugin/common/barbican_client_mgr.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e93f903
--- /dev/null
+++ b/octavia_tempest_plugin/common/barbican_client_mgr.py
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+# Copyright 2019 Rackspace US Inc.  All rights reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+from barbicanclient import client
+from keystoneauth1 import identity
+from keystoneauth1 import session
+from oslo_log import log as logging
+from tempest.lib.common.utils import data_utils
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class BarbicanClientManager(object):
+    """Class for interacting with the barbican service.
+
+    This class is an abstraction for interacting with the barbican service.
+    This class currently uses the barbican client code to access barbican due
+    to the following reasons:
+    1. Octavia users typically load secrets into barbican via the client.
+    2. The barbican-tempest-plugin is lightly tested (no py3 tests, etc.).
+    3. barbican-tempest-plugin is not in global requirements.
+
+    This led to the decision to not use the service client in the
+    barbican-tempest-plugin.
+
+    In the future it may be better to use the barbican-tempest-plugin
+    service client or the openstacksdk.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, tempest_client_mgr):
+        """Setup the barbican client.
+
+        :param tempest_client_mgr: A tempest client manager object, such as
+                                   os_primary.
+        """
+        # Convert the tempest credential passed in into a keystone session
+        auth_provider = tempest_client_mgr.auth_provider
+        cert_validation = False
+        if not auth_provider.dscv:
+            cert_validation = auth_provider.ca_certs
+        credentials = tempest_client_mgr.credentials
+        keystone_auth = identity.v3.Token(
+            auth_url=auth_provider.auth_url,
+            token=auth_provider.get_token(),
+            project_id=credentials.project_id,
+            project_name=credentials.project_name,
+            project_domain_id=credentials.project_domain_id,
+            project_domain_name=credentials.project_domain_name)
+        id_session = session.Session(auth=keystone_auth,
+                                     verify=cert_validation)
+
+        # Setup the barbican client
+        self.barbican = client.Client(session=id_session)
+
+    def store_secret(self, pkcs12_secret):
+        """Store a secret in barbican.
+
+        :param pkcs12_secret: A pkcs12 secret.
+        :returns: The barbican secret_ref.
+        """
+        p12_secret = self.barbican.secrets.create()
+        p12_secret.name = data_utils.rand_name("lb_member_barbican_pkcs12")
+        p12_secret.payload = pkcs12_secret
+        secret_ref = p12_secret.store()
+        LOG.debug('Secret {0} has ref {1}'.format(p12_secret.name, secret_ref))
+        return secret_ref
+
+    def delete_secret(self, secret_ref):
+        self.barbican.secrets.delete(secret_ref)
+
+    def add_acl(self, secret_ref, user_id):
+        acl_entity = self.barbican.acls.create(entity_ref=secret_ref,
+                                               users=[user_id],
+                                               project_access=True)
+        acl_ref = acl_entity.submit()
+        LOG.debug('Secret ACL {0} added user {1}'.format(acl_ref, user_id))
+        return acl_ref
diff --git a/octavia_tempest_plugin/common/cert_utils.py b/octavia_tempest_plugin/common/cert_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dcdd6f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/octavia_tempest_plugin/common/cert_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+# Copyright 2018 Rackspace US Inc.  All rights reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+import datetime
+
+from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import rsa
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import hashes
+from cryptography import x509
+from cryptography.x509.oid import NameOID
+import OpenSSL
+
+
+def generate_ca_cert_and_key():
+    """Creates a CA cert and key for testing.
+
+    :returns: The cryptography CA cert and CA key objects.
+    """
+
+    ca_key = rsa.generate_private_key(
+        public_exponent=65537, key_size=2048, backend=default_backend())
+
+    subject = issuer = x509.Name([
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.COUNTRY_NAME, u"US"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.STATE_OR_PROVINCE_NAME, u"Denial"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.LOCALITY_NAME, u"Corvallis"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.ORGANIZATION_NAME, u"OpenStack"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT_NAME, u"Octavia"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.COMMON_NAME, u"ca_cert.example.com"),
+    ])
+
+    ca_cert = x509.CertificateBuilder().subject_name(
+        subject
+    ).issuer_name(
+        issuer
+    ).public_key(
+        ca_key.public_key()
+    ).serial_number(
+        x509.random_serial_number()
+    ).not_valid_before(
+        datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+    ).not_valid_after(
+        datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(days=10)
+    ).add_extension(
+        x509.SubjectAlternativeName([x509.DNSName(u"ca_cert.example.com")]),
+        critical=False,
+    ).add_extension(
+        x509.BasicConstraints(ca=True, path_length=None),
+        critical=True,
+    ).sign(ca_key, hashes.SHA256(), default_backend())
+
+    return ca_cert, ca_key
+
+
+def generate_server_cert_and_key(ca_cert, ca_key, server_uuid):
+    """Creates a server cert and key for testing.
+
+    :param ca_cert: A cryptography CA certificate (x509) object.
+    :param ca_key: A cryptography CA key (x509) object.
+    :param server_uuid: A UUID identifying the server.
+    :returns: The cryptography server cert and key objects.
+    """
+
+    server_key = rsa.generate_private_key(
+        public_exponent=65537, key_size=2048, backend=default_backend())
+
+    subject = x509.Name([
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.COUNTRY_NAME, u"US"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.STATE_OR_PROVINCE_NAME, u"Denial"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.LOCALITY_NAME, u"Corvallis"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.ORGANIZATION_NAME, u"OpenStack"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT_NAME, u"Octavia"),
+        x509.NameAttribute(NameOID.COMMON_NAME, u"{}.example.com".format(
+            server_uuid)),
+    ])
+
+    server_cert = x509.CertificateBuilder().subject_name(
+        subject
+    ).issuer_name(
+        ca_cert.subject
+    ).public_key(
+        server_key.public_key()
+    ).serial_number(
+        x509.random_serial_number()
+    ).not_valid_before(
+        datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+    ).not_valid_after(
+        datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(days=10)
+    ).add_extension(
+        x509.SubjectAlternativeName(
+            [x509.DNSName(u"{}.example.com".format(server_uuid))]),
+        critical=False,
+    ).add_extension(
+        x509.BasicConstraints(ca=False, path_length=None),
+        critical=True,
+    ).sign(ca_key, hashes.SHA256(), default_backend())
+
+    return server_cert, server_key
+
+
+def generate_pkcs12_bundle(server_cert, server_key):
+    """Creates a pkcs12 formated bundle.
+
+    Note: This uses pyOpenSSL as the cryptography package does not yet
+          support creating pkcs12 bundles. The currently un-released
+          2.5 version of cryptography supports reading pkcs12, but not
+          creation. This method should be updated to only use
+          cryptography once it supports creating pkcs12 bundles.
+
+    :param server_cert: A cryptography certificate (x509) object.
+    :param server_key: A cryptography key (x509) object.
+    :returns: A pkcs12 bundle.
+    """
+    # TODO(johnsom) Replace with cryptography once it supports creating pkcs12
+    pkcs12 = OpenSSL.crypto.PKCS12()
+    pkcs12.set_privatekey(
+        OpenSSL.crypto.PKey.from_cryptography_key(server_key))
+    pkcs12.set_certificate(OpenSSL.crypto.X509.from_cryptography(server_cert))
+    return pkcs12.export()
diff --git a/octavia_tempest_plugin/config.py b/octavia_tempest_plugin/config.py
index 1d874a6..1bc4a63 100644
--- a/octavia_tempest_plugin/config.py
+++ b/octavia_tempest_plugin/config.py
@@ -14,9 +14,13 @@
 
 
 from oslo_config import cfg
+from oslo_log import log as logging
 
 from octavia_tempest_plugin.common import constants as const
 
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 service_available_group = cfg.OptGroup(name='service_available',
                                        title='Available OpenStack Services')
 
@@ -27,6 +31,19 @@
                      "to be available."),
 ]
 
+# Pull in the service_available for barbican if it is not defined.
+# If the barbican tempest plugin isn't loaded, this won't load from
+# tempest.conf.
+try:
+    if cfg.CONF.service_available.barbican is not None:
+        LOG.info('Barbican service_available state: {}'.format(
+            cfg.CONF.service_available.barbican))
+except cfg.NoSuchOptError:
+    ServiceAvailableGroup.append(
+        cfg.BoolOpt('barbican', default=False,
+                    help="Whether or not the barbican service is expected to "
+                         "be available."))
+
 octavia_group = cfg.OptGroup(name='load_balancer',
                              title='load-balancer service options')
 
@@ -54,6 +71,9 @@
                default=300,
                help='Timeout in seconds to wait for non-load-balancer '
                     'resources to build'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('octavia_svc_username', default='admin',
+               help='The service_auth username the Octavia services are using'
+                    'to access other OpenStack services.'),
     # load-balancer specific options
     cfg.IntOpt('check_interval',
                default=5,
@@ -152,4 +172,8 @@
                 default=True,
                 help="Whether Health Monitor is available with provider"
                      " driver or not."),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('terminated_tls_enabled',
+                default=True,
+                help="Whether TLS termination is available with provider "
+                     "driver or not."),
 ]
diff --git a/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/__init__.py b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/__init__.py
diff --git a/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/__init__.py b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/__init__.py
diff --git a/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/test_tls_barbican.py b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/test_tls_barbican.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86dac04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/test_tls_barbican.py
@@ -0,0 +1,274 @@
+# Copyright 2019 Rackspace US Inc.  All rights reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+import base64
+import socket
+
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import serialization
+from OpenSSL.crypto import X509
+from OpenSSL import SSL
+
+from oslo_log import log as logging
+from oslo_utils import uuidutils
+from tempest import config
+from tempest.lib.common.utils import data_utils
+from tempest.lib import decorators
+
+from octavia_lib.common import constants as lib_consts
+
+from octavia_tempest_plugin.common import barbican_client_mgr
+from octavia_tempest_plugin.common import cert_utils
+from octavia_tempest_plugin.common import constants as const
+from octavia_tempest_plugin.tests import test_base
+from octavia_tempest_plugin.tests import waiters
+
+CONF = config.CONF
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class TLSWithBarbicanTest(test_base.LoadBalancerBaseTestWithCompute):
+
+    @classmethod
+    def skip_checks(cls):
+        super(TLSWithBarbicanTest, cls).skip_checks()
+        if not CONF.loadbalancer_feature_enabled.terminated_tls_enabled:
+            raise cls.skipException('[loadbalancer-feature-enabled] '
+                                    '"terminated_tls_enabled" is False in '
+                                    'the tempest configuration. TLS tests '
+                                    'will be skipped.')
+        if not CONF.validation.run_validation:
+            raise cls.skipException('Traffic tests will not work without '
+                                    'run_validation enabled.')
+        if not CONF.service_available.barbican:
+            raise cls.skipException('TLS with Barbican tests require the '
+                                    'barbican service.')
+
+    @classmethod
+    def resource_setup(cls):
+        """Setup resources needed by the tests."""
+        super(TLSWithBarbicanTest, cls).resource_setup()
+
+        # Create a CA self-signed cert and key
+        cls.ca_cert, ca_key = cert_utils.generate_ca_cert_and_key()
+
+        LOG.debug('CA Cert: %s' % cls.ca_cert.public_bytes(
+            serialization.Encoding.PEM))
+        LOG.debug('CA private Key: %s' % ca_key.private_bytes(
+            encoding=serialization.Encoding.PEM,
+            format=serialization.PrivateFormat.TraditionalOpenSSL,
+            encryption_algorithm=serialization.NoEncryption()))
+        LOG.debug('CA public Key: %s' % ca_key.public_key().public_bytes(
+            encoding=serialization.Encoding.PEM,
+            format=serialization.PublicFormat.SubjectPublicKeyInfo))
+
+        # Create a server cert and key
+        cls.server_uuid = uuidutils.generate_uuid()
+        server_cert, server_key = cert_utils.generate_server_cert_and_key(
+            cls.ca_cert, ca_key, cls.server_uuid)
+
+        LOG.debug('Server Cert: %s' % server_cert.public_bytes(
+            serialization.Encoding.PEM))
+        LOG.debug('Server private Key: %s' % server_key.private_bytes(
+            encoding=serialization.Encoding.PEM,
+            format=serialization.PrivateFormat.TraditionalOpenSSL,
+            encryption_algorithm=serialization.NoEncryption()))
+        server_public_key = server_key.public_key()
+        LOG.debug('Server public Key: %s' % server_public_key.public_bytes(
+            encoding=serialization.Encoding.PEM,
+            format=serialization.PublicFormat.SubjectPublicKeyInfo))
+
+        # Create the pkcs12 bundle
+        pkcs12 = cert_utils.generate_pkcs12_bundle(server_cert, server_key)
+        LOG.debug('Server PKCS12 bundle: %s' % base64.b64encode(pkcs12))
+
+        # Load the secret into the barbican service under the
+        # os_roles_lb_member tenant
+        barbican_mgr = barbican_client_mgr.BarbicanClientManager(
+            cls.os_roles_lb_member)
+
+        cls.secret_ref = barbican_mgr.store_secret(pkcs12)
+        cls.addClassResourceCleanup(barbican_mgr.delete_secret, cls.secret_ref)
+
+        # Set the barbican ACL if the Octavia API version doesn't do it
+        # automatically.
+        if not cls.mem_lb_client.is_version_supported(
+                cls.api_version, '2.1'):
+            user_list = cls.os_admin.users_v3_client.list_users(
+                name=CONF.load_balancer.octavia_svc_username)
+            msg = 'Only one user named "{0}" should exist, {1} found.'.format(
+                CONF.load_balancer.octavia_svc_username,
+                len(user_list['users']))
+            assert 1 == len(user_list['users']), msg
+            barbican_mgr.add_acl(cls.secret_ref, user_list['users'][0]['id'])
+
+        # Setup a load balancer for the tests to use
+        lb_name = data_utils.rand_name("lb_member_lb1-tls")
+        lb_kwargs = {const.PROVIDER: CONF.load_balancer.provider,
+                     const.NAME: lb_name}
+
+        # TODO(johnsom) Update for IPv6
+        cls._setup_lb_network_kwargs(lb_kwargs, 4)
+
+        lb = cls.mem_lb_client.create_loadbalancer(**lb_kwargs)
+        cls.lb_id = lb[const.ID]
+        cls.addClassResourceCleanup(
+            cls.mem_lb_client.cleanup_loadbalancer,
+            cls.lb_id)
+
+        waiters.wait_for_status(cls.mem_lb_client.show_loadbalancer,
+                                cls.lb_id, const.PROVISIONING_STATUS,
+                                const.ACTIVE,
+                                CONF.load_balancer.lb_build_interval,
+                                CONF.load_balancer.lb_build_timeout)
+
+        if CONF.validation.connect_method == 'floating':
+            port_id = lb[const.VIP_PORT_ID]
+            result = cls.lb_mem_float_ip_client.create_floatingip(
+                floating_network_id=CONF.network.public_network_id,
+                port_id=port_id)
+            floating_ip = result['floatingip']
+            LOG.info('lb1_floating_ip: {}'.format(floating_ip))
+            cls.addClassResourceCleanup(
+                waiters.wait_for_not_found,
+                cls.lb_mem_float_ip_client.delete_floatingip,
+                cls.lb_mem_float_ip_client.show_floatingip,
+                floatingip_id=floating_ip['id'])
+            cls.lb_vip_address = floating_ip['floating_ip_address']
+        else:
+            cls.lb_vip_address = lb[const.VIP_ADDRESS]
+
+        pool_name = data_utils.rand_name("lb_member_pool1-tls")
+        pool_kwargs = {
+            const.NAME: pool_name,
+            const.PROTOCOL: const.HTTP,
+            const.LB_ALGORITHM: const.LB_ALGORITHM_ROUND_ROBIN,
+            const.LOADBALANCER_ID: cls.lb_id,
+        }
+        pool = cls.mem_pool_client.create_pool(**pool_kwargs)
+        cls.pool_id = pool[const.ID]
+        cls.addClassResourceCleanup(
+            cls.mem_pool_client.cleanup_pool,
+            cls.pool_id,
+            lb_client=cls.mem_lb_client, lb_id=cls.lb_id)
+
+        waiters.wait_for_status(cls.mem_lb_client.show_loadbalancer,
+                                cls.lb_id, const.PROVISIONING_STATUS,
+                                const.ACTIVE,
+                                CONF.load_balancer.build_interval,
+                                CONF.load_balancer.build_timeout)
+
+        # Set up Member 1 for Webserver 1
+        member1_name = data_utils.rand_name("lb_member_member1-tls")
+        member1_kwargs = {
+            const.POOL_ID: cls.pool_id,
+            const.NAME: member1_name,
+            const.ADMIN_STATE_UP: True,
+            const.ADDRESS: cls.webserver1_ip,
+            const.PROTOCOL_PORT: 80,
+        }
+        if cls.lb_member_1_subnet:
+            member1_kwargs[const.SUBNET_ID] = cls.lb_member_1_subnet[const.ID]
+
+        member1 = cls.mem_member_client.create_member(
+            **member1_kwargs)
+        cls.addClassResourceCleanup(
+            cls.mem_member_client.cleanup_member,
+            member1[const.ID], pool_id=cls.pool_id,
+            lb_client=cls.mem_lb_client, lb_id=cls.lb_id)
+        waiters.wait_for_status(
+            cls.mem_lb_client.show_loadbalancer, cls.lb_id,
+            const.PROVISIONING_STATUS, const.ACTIVE,
+            CONF.load_balancer.check_interval,
+            CONF.load_balancer.check_timeout)
+
+        # Set up Member 2 for Webserver 2
+        member2_name = data_utils.rand_name("lb_member_member2-tls")
+        member2_kwargs = {
+            const.POOL_ID: cls.pool_id,
+            const.NAME: member2_name,
+            const.ADMIN_STATE_UP: True,
+            const.ADDRESS: cls.webserver2_ip,
+            const.PROTOCOL_PORT: 80,
+        }
+        if cls.lb_member_2_subnet:
+            member2_kwargs[const.SUBNET_ID] = cls.lb_member_2_subnet[const.ID]
+
+        member2 = cls.mem_member_client.create_member(
+            **member2_kwargs)
+        cls.addClassResourceCleanup(
+            cls.mem_member_client.cleanup_member,
+            member2[const.ID], pool_id=cls.pool_id,
+            lb_client=cls.mem_lb_client, lb_id=cls.lb_id)
+        waiters.wait_for_status(
+            cls.mem_lb_client.show_loadbalancer, cls.lb_id,
+            const.PROVISIONING_STATUS, const.ACTIVE,
+            CONF.load_balancer.check_interval,
+            CONF.load_balancer.check_timeout)
+
+    @decorators.idempotent_id('887ece26-0f7b-4933-89ab-5bb00b106ee0')
+    def test_basic_tls_traffic(self):
+
+        listener_name = data_utils.rand_name("lb_member_listener1-tls")
+        listener_kwargs = {
+            const.NAME: listener_name,
+            const.PROTOCOL: lib_consts.PROTOCOL_TERMINATED_HTTPS,
+            const.PROTOCOL_PORT: '443',
+            const.LOADBALANCER_ID: self.lb_id,
+            const.DEFAULT_POOL_ID: self.pool_id,
+            const.DEFAULT_TLS_CONTAINER_REF: self.secret_ref,
+        }
+        listener = self.mem_listener_client.create_listener(**listener_kwargs)
+        self.listener_id = listener[const.ID]
+        self.addCleanup(
+            self.mem_listener_client.cleanup_listener,
+            self.listener_id,
+            lb_client=self.mem_lb_client, lb_id=self.lb_id)
+
+        waiters.wait_for_status(self.mem_lb_client.show_loadbalancer,
+                                self.lb_id, const.PROVISIONING_STATUS,
+                                const.ACTIVE,
+                                CONF.load_balancer.build_interval,
+                                CONF.load_balancer.build_timeout)
+
+        # Test HTTPS listener load balancing.
+        # Note: certificate validation tests will follow this test
+        self.check_members_balanced(self.lb_vip_address, protocol='https',
+                                    verify=False)
+
+        def _verify_cb(connection, x509, errno, errdepth, retcode):
+            """Callback for certificate validation."""
+            # don't validate names of root certificates
+            if errdepth != 0:
+                return True
+            if errno == 0:
+                # Make sure the certificate is the one we generated
+                self.assertEqual('{}.example.com'.format(self.server_uuid),
+                                 x509.get_subject().commonName)
+            else:
+                LOG.error('Certificate with CN: {0} failed validation with '
+                          'OpenSSL verify errno {1}'.format(
+                              x509.get_subject().commonName, errno))
+                return False
+            return True
+
+        context = SSL.Context(SSL.SSLv23_METHOD)
+        context.set_verify(SSL.VERIFY_PEER | SSL.VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT,
+                           _verify_cb)
+        ca_store = context.get_cert_store()
+        ca_store.add_cert(X509.from_cryptography(self.ca_cert))
+        sock = socket.socket()
+        sock = SSL.Connection(context, sock)
+        sock.connect((self.lb_vip_address, 443))
+        # Validate the certificate is signed by the ca_cert we created
+        sock.do_handshake()
diff --git a/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/test_base.py b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/test_base.py
index c443347..a48ba0b 100644
--- a/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/test_base.py
+++ b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/test_base.py
@@ -766,13 +766,15 @@
         URL = 'http://{0}:81'.format(ip_address)
         validators.validate_URL_response(URL, expected_body=str(start_id + 1))
 
-    def _wait_for_lb_functional(self, vip_address):
+    def _wait_for_lb_functional(self, vip_address,
+                                protocol='http', verify=True):
         session = requests.Session()
         start = time.time()
 
         while time.time() - start < CONF.load_balancer.build_timeout:
             try:
-                session.get("http://{0}".format(vip_address), timeout=2)
+                session.get("{0}://{1}".format(protocol, vip_address),
+                            timeout=2, verify=verify)
                 time.sleep(1)
                 return
             except Exception:
@@ -782,20 +784,21 @@
                   'period. Failing test.')
         raise Exception()
 
-    def check_members_balanced(self, vip_address, traffic_member_count=2):
+    def check_members_balanced(self, vip_address, traffic_member_count=2,
+                               protocol='http', verify=True):
         session = requests.Session()
         response_counts = {}
 
         if ipaddress.ip_address(vip_address).version == 6:
             vip_address = '[{}]'.format(vip_address)
 
-        self._wait_for_lb_functional(vip_address)
+        self._wait_for_lb_functional(vip_address, protocol, verify)
 
         # Send a number requests to lb vip
         for i in range(20):
             try:
-                r = session.get('http://{0}'.format(vip_address),
-                                timeout=2)
+                r = session.get('{0}://{1}'.format(protocol, vip_address),
+                                timeout=2, verify=verify)
 
                 if r.content in response_counts:
                     response_counts[r.content] += 1