diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 0dbfaa8e4e2e06f203be66667c737c620987d271..27734a3f5e1ffb7af19d81c19c6842ff6d98f845 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ variables:
   QA_DEFAULT_BRANCH: "master"
   # TOP_UPSTREAM_DEFAULT_BRANCH is the default branch name of the original project that triggered a pipeline in this project.
   TOP_UPSTREAM_DEFAULT_BRANCH: "master"
+  QA_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/gitlab-ee-qa:omnibus-5429-pass-image-tag-to-omnibus-pipeline-new"
 
 .check-base:
   stage: check
diff --git a/spec/gitlab/qa/component/specs_spec.rb b/spec/gitlab/qa/component/specs_spec.rb
index fe24b876470294b52970f3720d4b3037cc94278d..d4d9a3dc600ee0d90e92dee22c84f4362a45b938 100644
--- a/spec/gitlab/qa/component/specs_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/gitlab/qa/component/specs_spec.rb
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ describe Gitlab::QA::Component::Specs do
             specs.release = release
           end
 
+          p "ENV['QA_IMAGE']: #{ENV['QA_IMAGE']}"
           expect(docker_engine).to have_received(:pull)
             .with("#{qa_image}:#{qa_tag}")
         end