diff --git a/dev/tests/verification/Resources/PageReplacementTest.txt b/dev/tests/verification/Resources/PageReplacementTest.txt
index d4c6d1f90..5f5d4aece 100644
--- a/dev/tests/verification/Resources/PageReplacementTest.txt
+++ b/dev/tests/verification/Resources/PageReplacementTest.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ class PageReplacementTestCest
 		$I->amOnPage("/John/StringLiteral2.html");
 		$I->amOnPage("/John/" . $datakey->getCreatedDataByName('firstname') . ".html");
 		$I->amOnPage("/" . $datakey->getCreatedDataByName('firstname') . "/StringLiteral2.html");
-		$I->amOnPage("/admin/backend");
+		$I->amOnPage("/" . getenv("MAGENTO_BACKEND_NAME") . "//backend");
+		$I->amOnPage("/" . getenv("MAGENTO_BACKEND_NAME") . "//StringLiteral/page.html");
 		$I->amOnUrl("http://myFullUrl.com/");
 	}
 }
diff --git a/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Page/SamplePage.xml b/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Page/SamplePage.xml
index c1ec87b0a..b4bf97896 100644
--- a/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Page/SamplePage.xml
+++ b/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Page/SamplePage.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
     <page name="AdminPage" url="/backend" area="admin" module="SampleTests">
         <section name="SampleSection"/>
     </page>
+    <page name="AdminOneParamPage" url="/{{var1}}/page.html" area="admin" module="SampleTests" parameterized="true">
+        <section name="SampleSection"/>
+    </page>
     <page name="ExternalPage" url="http://myFullUrl.com/" area="external" module="SampleTests">
         <section name="SampleSection"/>
     </page>
diff --git a/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Test/PageReplacementTest.xml b/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Test/PageReplacementTest.xml
index 39766f2ab..acdbbb798 100644
--- a/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Test/PageReplacementTest.xml
+++ b/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Test/PageReplacementTest.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
         <amOnPage stepKey="twoParamPageDataPersist" url="{{TwoParamPage.url(simpleData.firstname, $datakey.firstname$)}}"/>
         <amOnPage stepKey="twoParamPagePersistString" url="{{TwoParamPage.url($datakey.firstname$, 'StringLiteral2')}}"/>
         <amOnPage stepKey="onAdminPage" url="{{AdminPage.url}}"/>
+        <amOnPage stepKey="oneParamAdminPageString" url="{{AdminOneParamPage.url('StringLiteral')}}"/>
         <amOnUrl stepKey="onExternalPage" url="{{ExternalPage.url}}"/>
     </test>
     <test name="ExternalPageTestBadReference">
diff --git a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/DataGenerator/Handlers/DataObjectHandler.php b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/DataGenerator/Handlers/DataObjectHandler.php
index 40b64e487..3bd3cffe3 100644
--- a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/DataGenerator/Handlers/DataObjectHandler.php
+++ b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/DataGenerator/Handlers/DataObjectHandler.php
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 
 class DataObjectHandler implements ObjectHandlerInterface
 {
-    const __ENV = '_ENV';
     const _ENTITY = 'entity';
     const _NAME = 'name';
     const _TYPE = 'type';
@@ -56,7 +55,6 @@ private function __construct()
             return;
         }
         $this->entityDataObjects = $this->processParserOutput($parserOutput);
-        $this->entityDataObjects[self::__ENV] = $this->processEnvFile();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -100,37 +98,6 @@ public function getAllObjects()
         return $this->entityDataObjects;
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Convert the contents of the .env file into a single EntityDataObject so that the values can be accessed like
-     * normal data.
-     *
-     * @return EntityDataObject|null
-     */
-    private function processEnvFile()
-    {
-        // These constants are defined in the bootstrap file
-        $path = PROJECT_ROOT . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '.env';
-
-        if (file_exists($path)) {
-            $vars = [];
-            $lines = file($path);
-
-            foreach ($lines as $line) {
-                $parts = explode("=", $line);
-                if (count($parts) != 2) {
-                    continue;
-                }
-                $key = strtolower(trim($parts[0]));
-                $value = trim($parts[1]);
-                $vars[$key] = $value;
-            }
-
-            return new EntityDataObject(self::__ENV, 'environment', $vars, null, null);
-        }
-
-        return null;
-    }
-
     /**
      * Convert the parser output into a collection of EntityDataObjects
      *
diff --git a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Page/Objects/PageObject.php b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Page/Objects/PageObject.php
index 2a21deb71..30cdc89ed 100644
--- a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Page/Objects/PageObject.php
+++ b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Page/Objects/PageObject.php
@@ -94,11 +94,6 @@ public function getName()
      */
     public function getUrl()
     {
-        if ($this->getArea() == self::ADMIN_AREA) {
-            $url = ltrim($this->url, '/');
-            return "/" . getenv('MAGENTO_BACKEND_NAME') . "/{$url}";
-        }
-
         return $this->url;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Test/Objects/ActionObject.php b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Test/Objects/ActionObject.php
index 5557dcda2..88d45db5d 100644
--- a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Test/Objects/ActionObject.php
+++ b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Test/Objects/ActionObject.php
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
  */
 class ActionObject
 {
+    const __ENV = "_ENV";
     const DATA_ENABLED_ATTRIBUTES = ["userInput", "parameterArray", "expected", "actual"];
     const SELECTOR_ENABLED_ATTRIBUTES = ['selector', 'dependentSelector', "selector1", "selector2", "function"];
     const OLD_ASSERTION_ATTRIBUTES = ["expected", "expectedType", "actual", "actualType"];
@@ -377,6 +378,11 @@ private function findAndReplaceReferences($objectHandler, $inputString)
 
             $obj = $objectHandler->getObject($objName);
 
+            // Leave {{_ENV.VARIABLE}} references to be replaced in TestGenerator with getenv("VARIABLE")
+            if ($objName === ActionObject::__ENV) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
             // specify behavior depending on field
             switch (get_class($obj)) {
                 case PageObject::class:
@@ -398,13 +404,16 @@ private function findAndReplaceReferences($objectHandler, $inputString)
                     break;
             }
 
-            if ($replacement == null && get_class($objectHandler) != DataObjectHandler::class) {
-                return $this->findAndReplaceReferences(DataObjectHandler::getInstance(), $outputString);
-            } elseif ($replacement == null) {
-                throw new TestReferenceException("Could not resolve entity reference " . $inputString);
+            if ($replacement == null) {
+                if (get_class($objectHandler) != DataObjectHandler::class) {
+                    return $this->findAndReplaceReferences(DataObjectHandler::getInstance(), $outputString);
+                } else {
+                    throw new TestReferenceException("Could not resolve entity reference " . $inputString);
+                }
             }
 
-            $replacement = $this->resolveParameterization($parameterized, $replacement, $match);
+            $replacement = $this->resolveParameterization($parameterized, $replacement, $match, $obj);
+
             $outputString = str_replace($match, $replacement, $outputString);
         }
         return $outputString;
@@ -468,16 +477,21 @@ private function resolveEntityDataObjectReference($obj, $match)
      * @param boolean $isParameterized
      * @param string $replacement
      * @param string $match
+     * @param object $object
      * @return string
      */
-    private function resolveParameterization($isParameterized, $replacement, $match)
+    private function resolveParameterization($isParameterized, $replacement, $match, $object)
     {
         if ($isParameterized) {
             $parameterList = $this->stripAndReturnParameters($match);
-            return $this->matchParameterReferences($replacement, $parameterList);
+            $resolvedReplacement = $this->matchParameterReferences($replacement, $parameterList);
         } else {
-            return $replacement;
+            $resolvedReplacement = $replacement;
+        }
+        if (get_class($object) == PageObject::class && $object->getArea() == PageObject::ADMIN_AREA) {
+            $resolvedReplacement = "/{{_ENV.MAGENTO_BACKEND_NAME}}/" . $resolvedReplacement;
         }
+        return $resolvedReplacement;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Util/TestGenerator.php b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Util/TestGenerator.php
index ae7357d93..51360ef83 100644
--- a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Util/TestGenerator.php
+++ b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Util/TestGenerator.php
@@ -1501,6 +1501,8 @@ private function wrapFunctionCall($actor, $action, ...$args)
         }
         $output .= ");\n";
 
+        $output = $this->resolveEnvReferences($output, $args);
+
         return $this->resolveTestVariable($output, $args);
     }
 
@@ -1530,10 +1532,40 @@ private function wrapFunctionCallWithReturnValue($returnVariable, $actor, $actio
         }
         $output .= ");\n";
 
+        $output = $this->resolveEnvReferences($output, $args);
+
         return $this->resolveTestVariable($output, $args);
     }
     // @codingStandardsIgnoreEnd
 
+    /**
+     * Resolves {{_ENV.variable}} into getenv("variable") for test-runtime ENV referencing.
+     * @param string $inputString
+     * @param array $args
+     * @return string
+     */
+    private function resolveEnvReferences($inputString, $args)
+    {
+        $envRegex = "/{{_ENV\.([\w]+)}}/";
+
+        $outputString = $inputString;
+
+        foreach ($args as $arg) {
+            preg_match_all($envRegex, $arg, $matches);
+            if (!empty($matches[0])) {
+                $fullMatch = $matches[0][0];
+                $envVariable = $matches[1][0];
+                unset($matches);
+                $replacement = "getenv(\"{$envVariable}\")";
+
+                $outputArg = $this->processQuoteBreaks($fullMatch, $arg, $replacement);
+                $outputString = str_replace($arg, $outputArg, $outputString);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return $outputString;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Validates parameter array format, making sure user has enclosed string with square brackets.
      *