diff --git a/e2e/binary/jq/BUILD.bazel b/e2e/binary/jq/BUILD.bazel
index ba9714d33ec7f1937c510e5f2e84a803f09ab8fa..01a4b72dd55d8abda3778f057220dd0232a41c3e 100644
--- a/e2e/binary/jq/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/e2e/binary/jq/BUILD.bazel
@@ -1,11 +1,31 @@
-load("@bazel_skylib//rules:build_test.bzl", "build_test")
+load("@bazel_skylib//rules:native_binary.bzl", "native_test")
+load("@rules_python_pytest//python_pytest:defs.bzl", "py_pytest_test")
 
-# TODO: write an _actual_ test for `jq`
+py_pytest_test(
+    name = "pytest",
+    size = "small",
+    srcs = ["jq.py"],
+    data = [
+        ":fixture.json",
+        "@ape//ape:jq",
+    ],
+    deps = [
+        "//binary:pytest",
+    ],
+)
 
-build_test(
-    name = "jq",
+native_test(
+    name = "version",
     size = "small",
-    tags = ["stub"],
-    targets = ["@ape//ape:jq"],
+    src = "@ape//ape:jq",
+    args = ["--version"],
+)
+
+test_suite(
+    name = "jq",
+    tests = [
+        "pytest",
+        "version",
+    ],
     visibility = ["//:__subpackages__"],
 )
diff --git a/e2e/binary/jq/fixture.json b/e2e/binary/jq/fixture.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0458103a0e2326eb12fb2d18e66d339639ab211e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/binary/jq/fixture.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+    "one": 1,
+    "two": 2
+}
diff --git a/e2e/binary/jq/jq.py b/e2e/binary/jq/jq.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..04488a4581190f640a67b859ab8a74050e921cc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/binary/jq/jq.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from subprocess import run
+
+from binary.tool import Tool
+from binary import Relative
+
+
+def test_jq(tool: Tool, relative: Relative) -> None:
+    binary = tool("jq")
+    fixture = relative("fixture.json")
+
+    cmd = (binary, ".one", fixture)
+    result = run(cmd, check=True, timeout=30, capture_output=True, text=True)
+    assert "1\n" == result.stdout