diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/pom.xml
index 1d063a6597..648c8d5278 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/pom.xml
@@ -120,6 +120,12 @@
       <groupId>com.google.api</groupId>
       <artifactId>gax-grpc</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.api</groupId>
+      <artifactId>gax</artifactId>
+      <classifier>testlib</classifier>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/src/test/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/native-image.properties b/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/src/test/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/native-image.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c5258dc2c..0000000000
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/src/test/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-bigtable-emulator/native-image.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Args=--initialize-at-build-time=org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkField \
---initialize-at-build-time=org.junit.runner.RunWith \
---initialize-at-build-time=java.lang.annotation.Annotation