diff --git a/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test.sh b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a1cec9e8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+export DALI_USE_NEW_EXECUTOR=1
+bash -e ./test_nofw.sh
+bash -e ./test_pytorch.sh
diff --git a/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test_body.sh b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test_body.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5714146528
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test_body.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+
+test_py_with_framework() {
+    # Note that we do not filter '!numba' below as it is installed as dependency
+    for test_script in $(ls test_pipeline.py \
+                            test_pipeline_debug.py \
+                            test_pipeline_debug_resnet50.py \
+                            test_eager_coverage.py \
+                            test_eager_operators.py \
+                            test_pipeline_decorator.py \
+                            test_pipeline_multichannel.py \
+                            test_pipeline_segmentation.py \
+                            test_triton_autoserialize.py \
+                            test_functional_api.py \
+                            test_backend_impl.py \
+                            test_dali_variable_batch_size.py \
+                            test_external_source_impl_utils.py); do
+        ${python_invoke_test} --attr '!slow,!pytorch,!mxnet,!cupy' ${test_script}
+    done
+    if [ -z "$DALI_ENABLE_SANITIZERS" ]; then
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -A 'numba' -s type_annotations
+    fi
+    ${python_new_invoke_test} -A '!slow,numba' checkpointing.test_dali_checkpointing
+    ${python_new_invoke_test} -A '!slow,numba' checkpointing.test_dali_stateless_operators
+}
+
+test_py() {
+    python test_python_function_cleanup.py
+    python test_detection_pipeline.py -i 300
+    python test_RN50_data_pipeline.py -s -i 10 --decoder_type "legacy"
+    python test_RN50_data_pipeline.py -s -i 10 --decoder_type "experimental"
+    python test_coco_tfrecord.py -i 64
+    python test_data_containers.py -s -b 20
+    python test_data_containers.py -s -b 20 -n
+}
+
+test_autograph() {
+    ${python_new_invoke_test} -s autograph
+    ${python_new_invoke_test} -s conditionals
+    if [ -z "$DALI_ENABLE_SANITIZERS" ]; then
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -s auto_aug
+    fi
+}
+
+test_type_annotations() {
+    if [ -z "$DALI_ENABLE_SANITIZERS" ]; then
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -A '!pytorch,!numba' -s type_annotations
+    fi
+}
+
+test_pytorch() {
+    ${python_invoke_test} --attr '!slow,pytorch' test_dali_variable_batch_size.py
+    if [ -z "$DALI_ENABLE_SANITIZERS" ]; then
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -A 'pytorch' -s type_annotations
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -A '!slow' checkpointing.test_dali_checkpointing_fw_iterators.TestPytorch
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -A '!slow' checkpointing.test_dali_checkpointing_fw_iterators.TestPytorchRagged
+    fi
+}
+
+test_checkpointing() {
+    if [ -z "$DALI_ENABLE_SANITIZERS" ]; then
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -A '!slow,!pytorch,!mxnet,!cupy,!numba' checkpointing.test_dali_checkpointing
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -A '!slow,!pytorch,!mxnet,!cupy,!numba' checkpointing.test_dali_stateless_operators
+    else
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -A '!slow,!pytorch,!mxnet,!cupy,!numba,!sanitizer_skip' checkpointing.test_dali_checkpointing
+
+        # External source tests are slow and Python-side mostly, but let's run just one of them
+        ${python_new_invoke_test} -A '!slow,!pytorch,!mxnet,!cupy,!numba' checkpointing.test_dali_checkpointing.test_external_source_checkpointing:1
+    fi
+}
+
+test_no_fw() {
+    test_py_with_framework
+    test_py
+    test_autograph
+    test_type_annotations
+    test_checkpointing
+}
+
+run_all() {
+  test_no_fw
+  test_pytorch
+}
diff --git a/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test_nofw.sh b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test_nofw.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..f02bdf9322
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test_nofw.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+# used pip packages
+pip_packages='${python_test_runner_package} numpy opencv-python pillow nvidia-ml-py==11.450.51 numba lz4 scipy mypy librosa'
+
+target_dir=./dali/test/python
+
+# test_body definition is in separate file so it can be used without setup
+source test_body.sh
+
+test_body() {
+  test_no_fw
+}
+
+pushd ../..
+source ./qa/test_template.sh
+popd
diff --git a/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test_pytorch.sh b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test_pytorch.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..8637698def
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core-exec2/test_pytorch.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+# used pip packages
+pip_packages='${python_test_runner_package} pillow opencv-python torch numba mypy'
+
+target_dir=./dali/test/python
+
+# test_body definition is in separate file so it can be used without setup
+source test_body.sh
+
+test_body() {
+  test_pytorch
+}
+
+# run this only on x86_64, not arm
+if [ $(uname -m) != "x86_64" ]
+then
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+pushd ../..
+source ./qa/test_template.sh
+popd
diff --git a/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core/test.sh b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core/test.sh
index dd1f504f83..ceacfc7728 100644
--- a/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core/test.sh
+++ b/qa/TL0_python-self-test-core/test.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash -e
+export DALI_USE_NEW_EXECUTOR=0
 bash -e ./test_nofw.sh
 bash -e ./test_pytorch.sh
diff --git a/qa/TL0_self-test-exec2/test.sh b/qa/TL0_self-test-exec2/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..2f0528e363
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qa/TL0_self-test-exec2/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/bin/bash -ex
+
+do_once() {
+  # generate file_list.txt for label testing
+  echo "${DALI_EXTRA_PATH}/db/video/frame_num_timestamp/test.mp4 0 0 99
+  ${DALI_EXTRA_PATH}/db/video/frame_num_timestamp/test.mp4 1 100 199
+  ${DALI_EXTRA_PATH}/db/video/frame_num_timestamp/test.mp4 2 200 256
+  " > /tmp/file_list.txt
+
+  echo "${DALI_EXTRA_PATH}/db/video/frame_num_timestamp/test_25fps.mp4 0 0 1
+  ${DALI_EXTRA_PATH}/db/video/frame_num_timestamp/test_25fps.mp4 1 2 3
+  ${DALI_EXTRA_PATH}/db/video/frame_num_timestamp/test_25fps.mp4 2 4 5
+  " > /tmp/file_list_timestamp.txt
+
+  echo "${DALI_EXTRA_PATH}/db/video/frame_num_timestamp/test_25fps.mp4 0 0 49
+  ${DALI_EXTRA_PATH}/db/video/frame_num_timestamp/test_25fps.mp4 1 50 99
+  ${DALI_EXTRA_PATH}/db/video/frame_num_timestamp/test_25fps.mp4 2 100 149
+  " > /tmp/file_list_frame_num.txt
+}
+
+test_body() {
+  for BINNAME in \
+    "dali_test.bin" \
+    "dali_operator_test.bin"
+  do
+    for DIRNAME in \
+      "../../build/dali/python/nvidia/dali" \
+      "$(python -c 'import os; from nvidia import dali; print(os.path.dirname(dali.__file__))' 2>/dev/null || echo '')"
+    do
+        if [ -x "$DIRNAME/test/$BINNAME" ]; then
+            FULLPATH="$DIRNAME/test/$BINNAME"
+            break
+        fi
+    done
+
+    if [[ -z "$FULLPATH" ]]; then
+        echo "ERROR: $BINNAME not found"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
+    DALI_USE_NEW_EXECUTOR=1 "$FULLPATH"
+  done
+}
+
+pushd ../..
+source ./qa/test_template.sh
+popd