diff --git a/.github/workflows/example-test-check.yml b/.github/workflows/example-test-check.yml
index 1b6e644cce..06dbe4437d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/example-test-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/example-test-check.yml
@@ -30,58 +30,38 @@ jobs:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
 
       - name: Create container tar
-        run: docker save ghcr.io/aklivity/zilla:develop-SNAPSHOT > /tmp/zilla.tar
+        run: docker save ghcr.io/aklivity/zilla:develop-SNAPSHOT > /tmp/zilla-image.tar
       
       - name: Upload artifact
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: zilla-image
-          path: /tmp/zilla.tar
+          path: /tmp/zilla-image.tar
 
-  test-openapi-proxy:
+  get-example-dirs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: build-image
-    env:
-      ZILLA_VERSION: develop-SNAPSHOT
-      ZILLA_PULL_POLICY: never
+    outputs:
+      dirs: ${{ steps.dirs.outputs.dirs }}
     steps:
-      - name: Download artifact
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: zilla-image
-          path: /tmp
-      
-      - name: Load image
-        run: |
-          docker load --input /tmp/zilla.tar
-          docker image ls -a
-
-      - name: Checkout docs repo
+      - name: Checkout examples repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           repository: aklivity/zilla-examples
-          ref: refs/heads/example-startup-compose
-
-      - name: Startup
-        run: ./startup.sh openapi.proxy
+          ref: refs/heads/example-startup-compose # change to main
+      - id: dirs
+        run: echo "dirs=$(ls -d */ | sed 's#/##'  | jq --raw-input --slurp --compact-output 'split("\n")[:-1]')" >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}
 
-      - name: Execute Test
-        working-directory: openapi.proxy
-        run: |
-          set -o pipefail
-          ./test.sh | tee $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
-
-      - name: Collect docker logs on failure
-        if: failure()
-        uses: jwalton/gh-docker-logs@v2
-        with:
-          dest: './logs'
-      - name: Tar logs
-        if: failure()
-        run: tar cvzf ./logs.tgz ./logs
-      - name: Upload logs to GitHub
-        if: failure()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: logs.tgz
-          path: ./logs.tgz
+  testing:
+    if: ${{ needs.get-example-dirs.outputs.dirs != '' }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        dir: ${{ fromJson(needs.get-example-dirs.outputs.dirs) }}
+      fail-fast: false
+    needs:
+      - build-image
+      - get-example-dirs
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable_test_runner.yaml
+    with:
+      example-dir: ${{ matrix.dir }}
+      zilla-image-tag: develop-SNAPSHOT
+      zilla-image-artifact-name: zilla-image
diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable_test_runner.yaml b/.github/workflows/reusable_test_runner.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7f71762805
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable_test_runner.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+name: Reusable Workflow for running tests
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      example-dir:
+        required: true
+        description: Directory name for the example to test
+        type: string
+      zilla-image-tag:
+        default: latest
+        description: Zilla Image tag
+        type: string
+      zilla-image-artifact-name:
+        default: zilla-image-artifact
+        description: Artifact name for a Zilla Image
+        type: string
+
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      example-dir:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      zilla-image-tag:
+        type: string
+      zilla-image-artifact-name:
+        type: string
+
+jobs:
+  runner:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      ZILLA_VERSION: ${{ inputs.zilla-image-tag }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          repository: aklivity/zilla-examples
+          ref: refs/heads/example-startup-compose # change to main
+          sparse-checkout: ${{ inputs.example-dir }}
+
+      - name: Cache Docker images.
+        if: ${{ hashFiles(format('{0}/compose.yaml', inputs.example-dir)) != '' }}
+        uses: ScribeMD/docker-cache@0.5.0
+        with:
+          key: docker-${{ runner.os }}-${{ inputs.example-dir }}-${{ hashFiles(format('{0}/compose.yaml', inputs.example-dir)) }}
+
+      - name: Download artifact
+        if: ${{ inputs.zilla-image-artifact-name != '' }}
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: ${{ inputs.zilla-image-artifact-name }}
+          path: /tmp
+
+      - name: Load image
+        if: ${{ inputs.zilla-image-artifact-name != '' }}
+        run: |
+          docker load --input /tmp/${{ inputs.zilla-image-artifact-name }}.tar
+          docker image ls -a
+
+      - name: Setup
+        run: ./startup.sh ${{ inputs.example-dir }}
+      - name: Wait for Zilla to be healthy
+        working-directory: ${{ inputs.example-dir }}
+        run: timeout 60s sh -c 'until docker compose ps zilla --format "{{.Name}} {{.Health}}" | grep -q healthy; do echo "Waiting for container to be healthy..."; sleep 2; done'
+
+      - name: Execute Test
+        if: ${{ hashFiles(format('{0}/test.sh', inputs.example-dir)) != '' }}
+        working-directory: ${{ inputs.example-dir }}
+        run: |
+          set -o pipefail
+          ./test.sh | tee $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
+
+      - name: Collect docker logs on failure
+        if: failure()
+        uses: jwalton/gh-docker-logs@v2
+        with:
+          dest: "./logs"
+      - name: Tar logs
+        if: failure()
+        run: tar cvzf ./logs.tgz ./logs
+      - name: Upload logs to GitHub
+        if: failure()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: ${{ inputs.example-dir }}_logs.tgz
+          path: ./logs.tgz
+
+      - name: Teardown
+        if: always() && ${{ hashFiles(format('{0}/teardown.sh', inputs.example-dir)) != '' }}
+        working-directory: ${{ inputs.example-dir }}
+        run: ./teardown.sh
+