diff --git a/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/BuildFile.xml b/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/BuildFile.xml
index 1e1a8464fa979..3c2b747222bb5 100644
--- a/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/BuildFile.xml
+++ b/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/BuildFile.xml
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
 <test name="TestSCRAM" command="run.sh"/>
+<test name="TestValgrind" command="test-valgrind.sh">
+  <flags PRE_TEST="test-valgrind-memleak"/>
+  <use name="valgrind"/>
+</test>
+<bin name="test-valgrind-memleak" file="test-valgrind-memleak.cpp"/>
diff --git a/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/test-valgrind-memleak.cpp b/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/test-valgrind-memleak.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dd78929bf4cb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/test-valgrind-memleak.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+int main() {
+  int* a = new int[10];
+  return a[0];
+}
diff --git a/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/test-valgrind.sh b/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/test-valgrind.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..799677bd1289d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Utilities/ReleaseScripts/test/test-valgrind.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+
+SCRIPT_NAME=$(basename $0)
+TEST_NAME="test-valgrind-memleak"
+valgrind --leak-check=full --undef-value-errors=no --error-limit=no \
+  ${CMSSW_BASE}/test/${SCRAM_ARCH}/${TEST_NAME} > ${SCRIPT_NAME}.log 2>&1
+
+cat ${SCRIPT_NAME}.log
+echo ""
+COUNT=$(grep 'definitely lost: [1-9][0-9]*' ${SCRIPT_NAME}.log | wc -l)
+rm -f ${SCRIPT_NAME}.log
+
+if [ $COUNT -eq 0 ] ; then
+  echo "ERROR: Valgrind was suppose to find memory leaks"
+  exit 1
+else
+  echo "ALL OK"
+fi