diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 7ff06833d..bef3be2d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -213,6 +213,17 @@ jobs:
   send-api-e2e-tests:
     needs: build
     uses: ./.github/workflows/e2e-api-tests.yml
+    with:
+      subset: non-docker
+    secrets: inherit
+
+  # Docker subset; an empty node_image falls back to DEFAULT_NWAKU (fork PRs lack the quay secrets).
+  send-api-e2e-docker-tests:
+    needs: [build, build-docker-image]
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/e2e-api-tests.yml
+    with:
+      subset: docker
+      node_image: ${{ needs.build-docker-image.outputs.image }}
     secrets: inherit
 
   lint:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e-api-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/e2e-api-tests.yml
index 00c5a4cfe..95464c749 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e-api-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e-api-tests.yml
@@ -2,12 +2,25 @@ name: e2e-api-tests
 
 on:
   workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      subset:
+        description: "Which wrapper subset to run: 'non-docker' or 'docker'."
+        type: string
+        required: false
+        default: "non-docker"
+      node_image:
+        description: "Node image used for the docker peers (docker subset only)."
+        type: string
+        required: false
+        default: ""
 
 jobs:
   api-e2e:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     timeout-minutes: 45
     name: api-e2e
+    env:
+      NODE_2: ${{ inputs.node_image }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -29,6 +42,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Python deps
         run: pip install -r tests-e2e/requirements.txt
 
-      - name: Run API/e2e tests (non-docker subset)
+      - name: Run API/e2e tests (${{ inputs.subset }} subset)
         working-directory: tests-e2e
-        run: pytest tests/wrappers_tests -m "not docker_required" --reruns 2
+        run: |
+          echo "docker peer image: ${NODE_2:-public default (DEFAULT_NWAKU)}"
+          pytest tests/wrappers_tests -m "${{ inputs.subset == 'docker' && 'docker_required' || 'not docker_required' }}" --reruns 2
diff --git a/tests-e2e/src/env_vars.py b/tests-e2e/src/env_vars.py
index 32e96a7e1..6fe752a38 100644
--- a/tests-e2e/src/env_vars.py
+++ b/tests-e2e/src/env_vars.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ def get_env_var(var_name, default=None):
 
 
 # Configuration constants. Need to be upercase to appear in reports
-DEFAULT_NWAKU = "wakuorg/nwaku:latest"
+DEFAULT_NWAKU = "wakuorg/nwaku:v0.38.1"
 STRESS_ENABLED = False
 USE_WRAPPERS = True
 NODE_1 = get_env_var("NODE_1", DEFAULT_NWAKU)