diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 44b7203..ab18c51 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ We've created an "easy button" for Ubuntu, Centos, RHEL and openSuSe.
       default Refstack API server or the server specified by --url.
    e. Adding --url option will allow you to change where test results should
       be uploaded.
+   f. Adding -r option with a string will prefix the JSON result file with the
+      given string (e.g. '-r my-test' will yield a result file like
+      'my-test-0.json').
 
    **Upload:**
 
diff --git a/refstack_client/refstack_client.py b/refstack_client/refstack_client.py
index e1069cc..11caa3c 100755
--- a/refstack_client/refstack_client.py
+++ b/refstack_client/refstack_client.py
@@ -226,6 +226,13 @@ class RefstackClient:
             self.logger.info("Number of passed tests: %d" % len(results))
 
             content = self._form_result_content(cpid, duration, results)
+
+            if self.args.result_tag:
+                file_name = os.path.basename(results_file)
+                directory = os.path.dirname(results_file)
+                file_name = '-'.join([self.args.result_tag, file_name])
+                results_file = os.path.join(directory, file_name)
+
             json_path = results_file + ".json"
             self._save_json_results(content, json_path)
             self.logger.info('JSON results saved in: %s' % json_path)
@@ -233,7 +240,6 @@ class RefstackClient:
             # If the user specified the upload argument, then post
             # the results.
             if self.args.upload:
-                content = self._form_result_content(cpid, duration, results)
                 self.post_results(self.args.url, content)
         else:
             self.logger.error("Problem executing Tempest script. Exit code %d",
@@ -299,6 +305,14 @@ def parse_cli_args(args=None):
                              help='Path of the Tempest configuration file to '
                                   'use.')
 
+    parser_test.add_argument('-r', '--result-file-tag',
+                             action='store',
+                             required=False,
+                             dest='result_tag',
+                             type=str,
+                             help='Specify a string to prefix the result '
+                                  'file with to easier distinguish them. ')
+
     parser_test.add_argument('-t', '--test-cases',
                              action='store',
                              required=False,
diff --git a/refstack_client/tests/unit/test_client.py b/refstack_client/tests/unit/test_client.py
index 702bf49..4f655cd 100755
--- a/refstack_client/tests/unit/test_client.py
+++ b/refstack_client/tests/unit/test_client.py
@@ -316,6 +316,37 @@ class TestRefstackClient(unittest.TestCase):
         client.tempest_dir = "/does/not/exist"
         self.assertRaises(SystemExit, client.test)
 
+    def test_run_tempest_result_tag(self):
+        """
+        Check that the result JSON file is renamed with the result file tag
+        when the --result-file-tag argument is passed in.
+        """
+        argv = self.mock_argv(verbose='-vv')
+        argv.extend(['--result-file-tag', 'my-test'])
+        args = rc.parse_cli_args(argv)
+        client = rc.RefstackClient(args)
+        client.tempest_dir = self.test_path
+        mock_popen = self.patch(
+            'refstack_client.refstack_client.subprocess.Popen',
+            return_value=MagicMock(returncode=0))
+        self.patch("os.path.isfile", return_value=True)
+        self.mock_keystone()
+        client.get_passed_tests = MagicMock(return_value=['test'])
+        client._save_json_results = MagicMock()
+        client.test()
+
+        mock_popen.assert_called_with(
+            ('%s/run_tempest.sh' % self.test_path, '-C', self.conf_file_name,
+             '-V', '-t', '--', 'tempest.api.compute'),
+            stderr=None
+        )
+
+        directory = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+        # Since '1' is in the next-stream file, we expect the JSON output file
+        # to be 'my-test-1.json'.
+        expected_file = directory + "/.testrepository/my-test-1.json"
+        client._save_json_results.assert_called_with(mock.ANY, expected_file)
+
     def test_failed_run(self):
         """
         Test when the Tempest script returns a non-zero exit code.