diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/add-params-to-v2-list-backups-api-c088d2b4bfe90247.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/add-params-to-v2-list-backups-api-c088d2b4bfe90247.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cee2d76638
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/add-params-to-v2-list-backups-api-c088d2b4bfe90247.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    The ``list_backups`` method of the v2 ``BackupsClient`` class now has
+    an additional ``**params`` argument that enables passing additional
+    information in the query string of the HTTP request.
diff --git a/tempest/lib/services/volume/v2/backups_client.py b/tempest/lib/services/volume/v2/backups_client.py
index a44ed0b74d..830fb82fea 100644
--- a/tempest/lib/services/volume/v2/backups_client.py
+++ b/tempest/lib/services/volume/v2/backups_client.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #    under the License.
 
 from oslo_serialization import jsonutils as json
+from six.moves.urllib import parse as urllib
 
 from tempest.lib.common import rest_client
 from tempest.lib import exceptions as lib_exc
@@ -64,11 +65,19 @@ class BackupsClient(base_client.BaseClient):
         self.expected_success(200, resp.status)
         return rest_client.ResponseBody(resp, body)
 
-    def list_backups(self, detail=False):
-        """Information for all the tenant's backups."""
+    def list_backups(self, detail=False, **params):
+        """List all the tenant's backups.
+
+        For a full list of available parameters, please refer to the official
+        API reference:
+        http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/block-storage/v2/#list-backups
+        http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/block-storage/v2/#list-backups-with-details
+        """
         url = "backups"
         if detail:
             url += "/detail"
+        if params:
+            url += '?%s' % urllib.urlencode(params)
         resp, body = self.get(url)
         body = json.loads(body)
         self.expected_success(200, resp.status)
diff --git a/tempest/tests/lib/services/volume/v2/test_backups_client.py b/tempest/tests/lib/services/volume/v2/test_backups_client.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14e5fb0be1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tempest/tests/lib/services/volume/v2/test_backups_client.py
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+# Copyright 2017 FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies CO.,LTD
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+from tempest.lib.services.volume.v2 import backups_client
+from tempest.tests.lib import fake_auth_provider
+from tempest.tests.lib.services import base
+
+
+class TestBackupsClient(base.BaseServiceTest):
+
+    FAKE_BACKUP_LIST = {
+        "backups": [
+            {
+                "id": "2ef47aee-8844-490c-804d-2a8efe561c65",
+                "links": [
+                    {
+                        "href": "fake-url-1",
+                        "rel": "self"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "href": "fake-url-2",
+                        "rel": "bookmark"
+                    }
+                ],
+                "name": "backup001"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+    FAKE_BACKUP_LIST_WITH_DETAIL = {
+        "backups": [
+            {
+                "availability_zone": "az1",
+                "container": "volumebackups",
+                "created_at": "2013-04-02T10:35:27.000000",
+                "description": None,
+                "fail_reason": None,
+                "id": "2ef47aee-8844-490c-804d-2a8efe561c65",
+                "links": [
+                    {
+                        "href": "fake-url-1",
+                        "rel": "self"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "href": "fake-url-2",
+                        "rel": "bookmark"
+                    }
+                ],
+                "name": "backup001",
+                "object_count": 22,
+                "size": 1,
+                "status": "available",
+                "volume_id": "e5185058-943a-4cb4-96d9-72c184c337d6",
+                "is_incremental": True,
+                "has_dependent_backups": False
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(TestBackupsClient, self).setUp()
+        fake_auth = fake_auth_provider.FakeAuthProvider()
+        self.client = backups_client.BackupsClient(fake_auth,
+                                                   'volume',
+                                                   'regionOne')
+
+    def _test_list_backups(self, detail=False, mock_args='backups',
+                           bytes_body=False, **params):
+        if detail:
+            resp_body = self.FAKE_BACKUP_LIST_WITH_DETAIL
+        else:
+            resp_body = self.FAKE_BACKUP_LIST
+        self.check_service_client_function(
+            self.client.list_backups,
+            'tempest.lib.common.rest_client.RestClient.get',
+            resp_body,
+            to_utf=bytes_body,
+            mock_args=[mock_args],
+            detail=detail,
+            **params)
+
+    def test_list_backups_with_str_body(self):
+        self._test_list_backups()
+
+    def test_list_backups_with_bytes_body(self):
+        self._test_list_backups(bytes_body=True)
+
+    def test_list_backups_with_detail_with_str_body(self):
+        mock_args = "backups/detail"
+        self._test_list_backups(detail=True, mock_args=mock_args)
+
+    def test_list_backups_with_detail_with_bytes_body(self):
+        mock_args = "backups/detail"
+        self._test_list_backups(detail=True, mock_args=mock_args,
+                                bytes_body=True)
+
+    def test_list_backups_with_params(self):
+        # Run the test separately for each param, to avoid assertion error
+        # resulting from randomized params order.
+        mock_args = 'backups?sort_key=name'
+        self._test_list_backups(mock_args=mock_args, sort_key='name')
+
+        mock_args = 'backups/detail?limit=10'
+        self._test_list_backups(detail=True, mock_args=mock_args,
+                                bytes_body=True, limit=10)