diff --git a/testing/common.sh b/testing/common.sh
index 533112454a2..6a35edd7574 100644
--- a/testing/common.sh
+++ b/testing/common.sh
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ function check_tenant_status() {
 function install_cert_manager_tenant() {
 
     echo "Install cert-manager tenant from our example:"
-    try kubectl apply -k github.com/minio/operator/examples/kustomization/tenant-certmanager
+    try kubectl apply -k "${SCRIPT_DIR}/../examples/kustomization/tenant-certmanager"
 
     echo "Wait until tenant-certmanager-tls secret is generated by cert-manager..."
     while ! kubectl get secret tenant-certmanager-tls --namespace tenant-certmanager
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ function install_tenant() {
     value=myminio
     echo "Installing lite tenant for version $1"
 
-    try kubectl apply -k "github.com/minio/operator/testing/tenant\?ref\=v${1}"
+    try kubectl apply -k 'github.com/minio/operator/testing/tenant?ref='v"${1}"
   fi
 
   echo "Waiting for the tenant statefulset, this indicates the tenant is being fulfilled"