diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 34131db65..941d1fb72 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -199,6 +199,12 @@
       <classifier>testlib</classifier>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.api</groupId>
+      <artifactId>gax</artifactId>
+      <classifier>testlib</classifier>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
 
     <!-- Add OpenTelemetry implementation and exporters for use in integration tests. -->
     <dependency>
@@ -366,6 +372,8 @@
           <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
           <configuration>
             <ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependencies>
+              <!-- This dependency is used for its native image configuration in the test scope -->
+              <ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependency>com.google.api:gax:jar</ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependency>
               <ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>org.graalvm.sdk:graal-sdk</ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>
               <ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>com.google.api.grpc:grpc-google-cloud-spanner-v1</ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>
               <ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-cloud-spanner-admin-instance-v1</ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-spanner-jdbc/native-image.properties b/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-spanner-jdbc/native-image.properties
index f9e42bad8..1fc61b0c7 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-spanner-jdbc/native-image.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-spanner-jdbc/native-image.properties
@@ -2,18 +2,8 @@ Args = --initialize-at-build-time==com.google.cloud.spanner.IntegrationTestEnv,\
   com.google.cloud.spanner.jdbc.it.JdbcIntegrationTestEnv,\
   com.google.cloud.spanner.jdbc.it.DialectTestParameter,\
   com.google.common.collect.RegularImmutableMap,\
-  com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMapEntry,\
-  com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMapEntry$NonTerminalImmutableMapEntry,\
-  com.google.common.collect.SingletonImmutableBiMap,\
   com.google.cloud.spanner.Dialect,\
   com.google.cloud.spanner.Dialect$2,\
   com.google.cloud.spanner.Dialect$1,\
   com.google.spanner.admin.database.v1.DatabaseDialect,\
   com.google.spanner.admin.database.v1.DatabaseDialect$1,\
-  org.junit.runners.MethodSorters,\
-  org.junit.runners.Parameterized,\
-  org.junit.runner.RunWith,\
-  org.junit.FixMethodOrder,\
-  org.junit.experimental.categories.Category,\
-  org.junit.runners.parameterized.BlockJUnit4ClassRunnerWithParameters,\
-  org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkField,\
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