diff --git a/src/testFixtures/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/BaseNeuralSearchIT.java b/src/testFixtures/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/BaseNeuralSearchIT.java
index a9b4198ca..702000986 100644
--- a/src/testFixtures/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/BaseNeuralSearchIT.java
+++ b/src/testFixtures/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/BaseNeuralSearchIT.java
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ protected void initializeBasicIndexIfNotExist(String indexName) {
                 Collections.singletonList(TEST_KNN_VECTOR_FIELD_NAME_1),
                 Collections.singletonList(Floats.asList(testVector).toArray()),
                 Collections.singletonList(TEST_TEXT_FIELD_NAME_3),
-                Collections.singletonList(TEST_QUERY_TEXT)
+                Collections.singletonList(TEST_QUERY_TEXT8)
             );
             assertEquals(1, getDocCount(TEST_TEXT_AND_VECTOR_FIELD_INDEX_NAME));
         }