diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/lazy_loader.js b/app/assets/javascripts/lazy_loader.js
index ee01a73a6e8..66f25b622e0 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/lazy_loader.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/lazy_loader.js
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ export default class LazyLoader {
       img.removeAttribute('data-src');
       img.classList.remove('lazy');
       img.classList.add('js-lazy-loaded');
+      img.classList.add('qa-js-lazy-loaded');
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/app/views/shared/empty_states/_labels.html.haml b/app/views/shared/empty_states/_labels.html.haml
index bee26cd8312..a739103641e 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/empty_states/_labels.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/empty_states/_labels.html.haml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .row.empty-state.labels
   .col-12
-    .svg-content
+    .svg-content.qa-label-svg
       = image_tag 'illustrations/labels.svg'
   .col-12
     .text-content
diff --git a/qa/qa/page/label/index.rb b/qa/qa/page/label/index.rb
index 323acd57743..9344371a0b6 100644
--- a/qa/qa/page/label/index.rb
+++ b/qa/qa/page/label/index.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,22 @@ module QA
           element :label_create_new
         end
 
+        view 'app/views/shared/empty_states/_labels.html.haml' do
+          element :label_svg
+        end
+
+        view 'app/assets/javascripts/lazy_loader.js' do
+          element :js_lazy_loaded
+        end
+
         def go_to_new_label
+          # The 'labels.svg' takes a fraction of a second to load after which the "New label" button shifts up a bit
+          # This can cause webdriver to miss the hit so we wait for the svg to load (implicitly with has_element?)
+          # before clicking the button.
+          within_element(:label_svg) do
+            has_element?(:js_lazy_loaded)
+          end
+
           click_element :label_create_new
         end
       end