diff --git a/google-cloud-nio/pom.xml b/google-cloud-nio/pom.xml
index 297f9ea7..fed7abdd 100644
--- a/google-cloud-nio/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-nio/pom.xml
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@
       <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
       <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.api</groupId>
+      <artifactId>gax</artifactId>
+      <classifier>testlib</classifier>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
@@ -183,6 +189,15 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+        <ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependencies>
+		  <!-- This dependency is used for its native image configuration in the test scope -->
+          <ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependency>com.google.api:gax:jar</ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependency>
+		</ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependencies>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/google-cloud-nio/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com/google/cloud/google-cloud-nio/native-image.properties b/google-cloud-nio/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com/google/cloud/google-cloud-nio/native-image.properties
index 1449dc0e..be1730e4 100644
--- a/google-cloud-nio/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com/google/cloud/google-cloud-nio/native-image.properties
+++ b/google-cloud-nio/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com/google/cloud/google-cloud-nio/native-image.properties
@@ -7,6 +7,3 @@
 Args = --initialize-at-build-time=com.google.cloud.storage.contrib.nio.CloudStorageFileSystemProvider,\
   com.google.cloud.storage.contrib.nio.CloudStorageConfiguration,\
   com.google.cloud.storage.contrib.nio.AutoValue_CloudStorageConfiguration,\
-  com.google.common.collect.RegularImmutableList,\
-  org.junit.runner.RunWith,java.lang.annotation.Annotation,\
-  org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkField