diff --git a/test/common.js b/test/common.js
index b4aa4edaf3dca0..b7ddaf92b482b7 100644
--- a/test/common.js
+++ b/test/common.js
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ exports.tmpDirName = 'tmp';
 exports.PORT = +process.env.NODE_COMMON_PORT || 12346;
 exports.isWindows = process.platform === 'win32';
 exports.isAix = process.platform === 'aix';
+exports.isLinuxPPCBE = (process.platform === 'linux') &&
+                       (process.arch === 'ppc64') &&
+                       (os.endianness() === 'BE');
+exports.isSunOS = process.platform === 'sunos';
+exports.isFreeBSD = process.platform === 'freebsd';
 
 function rimrafSync(p) {
   try {
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-tick-processor.js b/test/parallel/test-tick-processor.js
index cd110e1a87ed3d..65da7362d9a915 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-tick-processor.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-tick-processor.js
@@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ runTest(/LazyCompile.*\[eval\]:1|.*%  UNKNOWN/,
    };
    setTimeout(function() { process.exit(0); }, 2000);
    f();`);
-if (process.platform === 'win32' ||
-    process.platform === 'sunos' ||
-    process.platform === 'freebsd') {
+if (common.isWindows ||
+    common.isSunOS ||
+    common.isAix ||
+    common.isLinuxPPCBE ||
+    common.isFreeBSD) {
   console.log('1..0 # Skipped: C++ symbols are not mapped for this os.');
   return;
 }