diff --git a/phoenix5-spark/pom.xml b/phoenix5-spark/pom.xml
index fdd614d9..5c4bafc3 100644
--- a/phoenix5-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/phoenix5-spark/pom.xml
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@
           <reportsDirectory>${project.build.directory}/surefire-reports</reportsDirectory>
           <junitxml>.</junitxml>
           <filereports>WDF TestSuite.txt</filereports>
-          <skipTests>${skip.scalatest}</skipTests>
+          <skipTests>${skipTests}</skipTests>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
diff --git a/phoenix5-spark3/pom.xml b/phoenix5-spark3/pom.xml
index 98394e2e..53733d45 100644
--- a/phoenix5-spark3/pom.xml
+++ b/phoenix5-spark3/pom.xml
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
           <reportsDirectory>${project.build.directory}/surefire-reports</reportsDirectory>
           <junitxml>.</junitxml>
           <filereports>WDF TestSuite.txt</filereports>
-          <skipTests>${skip.scalatest}</skipTests>
+          <skipTests>${skipTests}</skipTests>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ddd941de..15ca4656 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -162,7 +162,6 @@
     <hbase.shaded.package>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded</hbase.shaded.package>
     <phoenix.main.version>5</phoenix.main.version>
 
-    <skip.scalatest>false</skip.scalatest>
     <skip.spark.javadoc>false</skip.spark.javadoc>
   </properties>