diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index cd83ede4b..7fc6f2dfe 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ jobs:
             - attach_workspace:
                   at: "."
 
-            - run: npm i -g ts-node
             - run: npm run test:end-to-end
 
     test-unit:
@@ -144,6 +143,10 @@ workflows:
             - prettier:
                   requires:
                       - build
+            - test-end-to-end:
+                  requires:
+                      - build
+                      - tsc
             - test-unit:
                   requires:
                       - build
diff --git a/docs/Testing.md b/docs/Testing.md
index 3b28d335e..b75bd5fa6 100644
--- a/docs/Testing.md
+++ b/docs/Testing.md
@@ -42,3 +42,5 @@ Within each directory, a test suite will execute `bin/tslint-to-eslint` and vali
 
 Use `npm run test:end-to-end:accept` to overwrite the expected contents of files with what is actually written.
 These behave similarly to updating snapshots in snapshot testing.
+
+> Note: these end-to-end tests use the compiled result of `npm run tsc`, so if you update source code, re-run `npm run tsc` before `npm run test:end-to-end`.
diff --git a/test/createTests.ts b/test/createTests.ts
index 65e2df159..8fa598c31 100644
--- a/test/createTests.ts
+++ b/test/createTests.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export const createTests = (
 
     const act = async (testArgs: string[]) => {
         try {
-            return await exec(`ts-node ${binFile} ${testArgs.join(" ")}`, {
+            return await exec(`node ${binFile} ${testArgs.join(" ")}`, {
                 cwd,
             });
         } catch (error) {