diff --git a/cypress.config.ts b/cypress.config.ts
index dcf8600021b..2b75ff0e4bf 100644
--- a/cypress.config.ts
+++ b/cypress.config.ts
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ export default defineConfig({
     azureClientId:       process.env.AZURE_CLIENT_ID,
     azureClientSecret:   process.env.AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET,
     customNodeIp:        process.env.CUSTOM_NODE_IP,
-    customNodeKey:       process.env.CUSTOM_NODE_KEY
+    customNodeKey:       process.env.CUSTOM_NODE_KEY,
+    gkeServiceAccount:   process.env.GKE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT,
   },
   e2e: {
     fixturesFolder: 'cypress/e2e/blueprints',
diff --git a/cypress/e2e/po/components/button-file-selector.po.ts b/cypress/e2e/po/components/button-file-selector.po.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a9071caff5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cypress/e2e/po/components/button-file-selector.po.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import ComponentPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/components/component.po';
+
+export default class ButtonFileSelectorPo extends ComponentPo {
+  /**
+  * Returns a file-selector button
+  * @param id
+  * @returns
+  */
+  static readFromFileButton(): Cypress.Chainable {
+    return cy.getId('file-selector__uploader-button');
+  }
+}
diff --git a/cypress/e2e/po/edit/cloud-credentials-gke.po.ts b/cypress/e2e/po/edit/cloud-credentials-gke.po.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ac12651f3e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cypress/e2e/po/edit/cloud-credentials-gke.po.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import LabeledInputPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/components/labeled-input.po';
+import ButtonFileSelectorPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/components/button-file-selector.po';
+import BaseCloudCredentialsPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/edit/base-cloud-credentials.po';
+import AsyncButtonPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/components/async-button.po';
+
+export default class GKECloudCredentialsCreateEditPo extends BaseCloudCredentialsPo {
+  serviceAccount(): LabeledInputPo {
+    return LabeledInputPo.byLabel(this.self(), 'Service Account');
+  }
+
+  readFromFile(): Cypress.Chainable {
+    return ButtonFileSelectorPo.readFromFileButton().click();
+  }
+
+  authenticateButton() {
+    return new AsyncButtonPo('[data-testid="action-button-async-button"]', this.self());
+  }
+}
diff --git a/cypress/e2e/po/edit/provisioning.cattle.io.cluster/create/cluster-create-gke.po.ts b/cypress/e2e/po/edit/provisioning.cattle.io.cluster/create/cluster-create-gke.po.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a2ecd46e7f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cypress/e2e/po/edit/provisioning.cattle.io.cluster/create/cluster-create-gke.po.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+import PagePo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/pages/page.po';
+import ClusterManagerCreatePagePo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/edit/provisioning.cattle.io.cluster/create/cluster-create.po';
+import LabeledInputPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/components/labeled-input.po';
+import LabeledSelectPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/components/labeled-select.po';
+import GKECloudCredentialsCreateEditPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/edit/cloud-credentials-gke.po';
+import AsyncButtonPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/components/async-button.po';
+
+/**
+ * Create page for a GKE cluster
+ */
+export default class ClusterManagerCreateGKEPagePo extends ClusterManagerCreatePagePo {
+  static url(clusterId: string) {
+    return `${ ClusterManagerCreatePagePo.url(clusterId) }/create?type=googlegke`;
+  }
+
+  static goTo(clusterId: string): Cypress.Chainable<Cypress.AUTWindow> {
+    return PagePo.goTo(ClusterManagerCreateGKEPagePo.url(clusterId));
+  }
+
+  goToGKEClusterCreation(clusterId: string): Cypress.Chainable<Cypress.AUTWindow> {
+    return PagePo.goTo(`${ ClusterManagerCreatePagePo.url(clusterId) }?type=googlegke`);
+  }
+
+  cloudCredentialsForm(): GKECloudCredentialsCreateEditPo {
+    return new GKECloudCredentialsCreateEditPo();
+  }
+
+  authProjectId(): LabeledInputPo {
+    return LabeledInputPo.byLabel(this.self(), 'Google Project ID');
+  }
+
+  saveCreateGkeCluster(): AsyncButtonPo {
+    return new AsyncButtonPo('[data-testid="form-save"]', this.self());
+  }
+
+  static getGkeVersionSelect() {
+    return new LabeledSelectPo('[data-testid="gke-version-select"]');
+  }
+
+  static getGkeZoneSelect() {
+    return new LabeledSelectPo('[data-testid="gke-zone-select"]');
+  }
+
+  getClusterName() {
+    return new LabeledInputPo('[data-testid="gke-cluster-name"]');
+  }
+
+  getClusterDescription() {
+    return new LabeledInputPo('[data-testid="gke-cluster-description"]');
+  }
+}
diff --git a/cypress/e2e/tests/pages/manager/gke-cluster-provisioning.spec.ts b/cypress/e2e/tests/pages/manager/gke-cluster-provisioning.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0133e04a542
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cypress/e2e/tests/pages/manager/gke-cluster-provisioning.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+import HomePagePo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/pages/home.po';
+import ClusterManagerListPagePo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/pages/cluster-manager/cluster-manager-list.po';
+import LoadingPo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/components/loading.po';
+import ClusterManagerCreateGKEPagePo from '@/cypress/e2e/po/edit/provisioning.cattle.io.cluster/create/cluster-create-gke.po';
+import { DEFAULT_GCP_ZONE } from '@/pkg/gke/util/gcp';
+
+/******
+ *  Running this test will delete all GKE cloud credentials from the target cluster
+ ******/
+
+// will only run this in jenkins pipeline where cloud credentials are stored
+describe('Deploy GKE cluster with default settings', { tags: ['@manager', '@adminUser', '@jenkins'] }, () => {
+  const clusterList = new ClusterManagerListPagePo();
+  const loadingPo = new LoadingPo('.loading-indicator');
+
+  let cloudcredentialId = '';
+  const gkeDefaultZone = 'us-central1-c';
+  let gkeVersion = '';
+  let clusterId = '';
+  let clusterDescription = '';
+  const base64EncodedServiceAccount = Cypress.env('gkeServiceAccount');
+  let gkeProjectId = '';
+
+  // Check if the base64 string is defined and valid
+  if (base64EncodedServiceAccount) {
+    try {
+      // Decode the base64 string into a JSON string
+      const decodedServiceAccountJson = atob(base64EncodedServiceAccount);
+
+      // Parse the decoded JSON string
+      const serviceAccount = JSON.parse(decodedServiceAccountJson);
+
+      // Now you can access the project_id
+      gkeProjectId = serviceAccount.project_id;
+      /* eslint-disable no-console */
+      console.log(gkeProjectId); // Check if the value is correct
+    } catch (error) {
+      // Handle any error that occurs during decoding or parsing
+      console.error('Error decoding or parsing service account JSON:', error);
+    }
+  } else {
+    console.warn('gkeServiceAccount environment variable is undefined or empty.');
+  }
+
+  before(() => {
+    cy.login();
+    HomePagePo.goTo();
+
+    // clean up GKE cloud credentials
+    cy.getRancherResource('v3', 'cloudcredentials', null, null).then((resp: Cypress.Response<any>) => {
+      const body = resp.body;
+
+      if (body.pagination['total'] > 0) {
+        body.data.forEach((item: any) => {
+          if (item.googlecredentialConfig) {
+            const id = item.id;
+
+            cy.deleteRancherResource('v3', 'cloudcredentials', id);
+          } else {
+            cy.log('There are no existing GKE cloud credentials to delete');
+          }
+        });
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    cy.createE2EResourceName('gkecluster').as('gkeClusterName');
+    cy.createE2EResourceName('gkecloudcredential').as('gkeCloudCredentialName');
+  });
+
+  it('Successfully create GKE cluster with default settings', function() {
+    const createGKEClusterPage = new ClusterManagerCreateGKEPagePo();
+    const cloudCredForm = createGKEClusterPage.cloudCredentialsForm();
+
+    // Select GKE and create GKE cluster page
+    ClusterManagerListPagePo.navTo();
+    clusterList.waitForPage();
+    clusterList.createCluster();
+    createGKEClusterPage.selectKubeProvider(2);
+    loadingPo.checkNotExists();
+    createGKEClusterPage.rke2PageTitle().should('include', 'Create Google GKE');
+    createGKEClusterPage.waitForPage('type=googlegke&rkeType=rke2');
+
+    // create GKE cloud credential
+    cloudCredForm.saveButton().expectToBeDisabled();
+    cloudCredForm.nameNsDescription().name().set(this.gkeCloudCredentialName);
+    cloudCredForm.serviceAccount().set(Cypress.env('gkeServiceAccount'));
+    cloudCredForm.saveButton().expectToBeEnabled();
+    cy.intercept('GET', '/v1/management.cattle.io.users?exclude=metadata.managedFields').as('pageLoad');
+    cloudCredForm.saveCreateForm().cruResource().saveAndWaitForRequests('POST', '/v3/cloudcredentials').then((req) => {
+      expect(req.response?.statusCode).to.equal(201);
+      cloudcredentialId = req.response?.body.id.replace(':', '%3A');
+
+      // Authenticate GKE credential by providing the Project ID
+      createGKEClusterPage.waitForPage('type=googlegke&rkeType=rke2');
+      createGKEClusterPage.authProjectId().set( gkeProjectId );
+      cy.intercept('POST', `/meta/gkeVersions?cloudCredentialId=${ cloudcredentialId }&projectId=${ gkeProjectId }&zone=${ gkeDefaultZone }`).as('getGKEVersions');
+      cloudCredForm.authenticateButton().click();
+      cy.wait('@pageLoad').its('response.statusCode').should('eq', 200);
+      loadingPo.checkNotExists();
+
+      // Verify that gke-zone-select dropdown is set to the default zone
+      createGKEClusterPage.waitForPage('type=googlegke&rkeType=rke2');
+      ClusterManagerCreateGKEPagePo.getGkeZoneSelect().checkOptionSelected(DEFAULT_GCP_ZONE);
+
+      // Get latest GKE kubernetes version and verify that gke-version-select dropdown is set to the default version as defined by versionOptions(); in Config.vue
+      cy.wait('@getGKEVersions').then(({ response }) => {
+        expect(response.statusCode).to.eq(200);
+        gkeVersion = response.body.validMasterVersions[0];
+        cy.wrap(gkeVersion).as('gkeVersion');
+        ClusterManagerCreateGKEPagePo.getGkeVersionSelect().checkOptionSelected(gkeVersion);
+      });
+
+      // Set the cluster name and description in the Create GKE Page
+      createGKEClusterPage.getClusterName().set(this.gkeClusterName);
+      clusterDescription = `${ this.gkeClusterName }-description`;
+      createGKEClusterPage.getClusterDescription().set(clusterDescription);
+    });
+
+    // Create GKE Cluster and verify that the properties posted to the server match the expected settings
+    cy.intercept('POST', 'v3/clusters').as('createGKECluster');
+
+    createGKEClusterPage.saveCreateGkeCluster().click();
+    cy.wait('@createGKECluster').then(({ response }) => {
+      expect(response?.statusCode).to.eq(201);
+      expect(response?.body).to.have.property('baseType', 'cluster');
+      expect(response?.body.gkeConfig).to.have.property('clusterName', this.gkeClusterName);
+      expect(response?.body).to.have.property('description', clusterDescription);
+      expect(response?.body.gkeConfig).to.have.property('kubernetesVersion').contains(gkeVersion);
+      clusterId = response?.body.id;
+    });
+
+    // Verify that the GKE created cluster is listed in the clusters list and has the Provisioning status
+    clusterList.waitForPage();
+    clusterList.list().state(this.gkeClusterName).should('contain.text', 'Provisioning');
+  });
+
+  after('clean up', () => {
+    // delete cluster
+    cy.deleteRancherResource('v1', 'provisioning.cattle.io.clusters', `fleet-default/${ clusterId }`, false);
+
+    // clean up GKE cloud credentials
+    cy.getRancherResource('v3', 'cloudcredentials', null, null).then((resp: Cypress.Response<any>) => {
+      const body = resp.body;
+
+      if (body.pagination['total'] > 0) {
+        body.data.forEach((item: any) => {
+          if (item.googlecredentialConfig) {
+            const id = item.id;
+
+            cy.deleteRancherResource('v3', 'cloudcredentials', id);
+          } else {
+            cy.log('There are no existing GKE cloud credentials to delete');
+          }
+        });
+      }
+    });
+  }
+  );
+});
diff --git a/pkg/gke/components/CruGKE.vue b/pkg/gke/components/CruGKE.vue
index 2ea85145e4c..bdff8329fd0 100644
--- a/pkg/gke/components/CruGKE.vue
+++ b/pkg/gke/components/CruGKE.vue
@@ -697,7 +697,9 @@ export default defineComponent({
         <div
           class="row mb-10"
         >
-          <div class="col span-6">
+          <div
+            class="col span-6"
+          >
             <LabeledInput
               :value="normanCluster.name"
               :mode="mode"
@@ -708,7 +710,9 @@ export default defineComponent({
               @update:value="setClusterName"
             />
           </div>
-          <div class="col span-6">
+          <div
+            class="col span-6"
+          >
             <LabeledInput
               :value="normanCluster.description"
               :mode="mode"