diff --git a/java/checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/java/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
index 16047f69cda..6b9f0676351 100644
--- a/java/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
+++ b/java/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
   <suppress checks="Indentation" files="src/test/org/apache/orc/tools/convert/TestJsonReader.java"/>
   <suppress checks="Indentation" files="src/test/org/apache/orc/tools/json/TestJsonSchemaFinder.java"/>
 
-  <suppress checks="UnusedImports" files="src/test/*"/>
   <suppress checks="AvoidStarImport" files="src/test/*"/>
   <suppress checks="CustomImportOrder" files="src/test/*"/>
 </suppressions>
diff --git a/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/TestMinSeekSize.java b/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/TestMinSeekSize.java
index f4814f35644..d53cc2f4683 100644
--- a/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/TestMinSeekSize.java
+++ b/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/TestMinSeekSize.java
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
 public class TestMinSeekSize {
diff --git a/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/TestOrcFilterContext.java b/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/TestOrcFilterContext.java
index 3e1cb763211..265956890d9 100644
--- a/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/TestOrcFilterContext.java
+++ b/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/TestOrcFilterContext.java
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Random;
-import java.util.Arrays;
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
diff --git a/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/impl/filter/TestPluginFilterService.java b/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/impl/filter/TestPluginFilterService.java
index b1824f2071f..923910ded1b 100644
--- a/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/impl/filter/TestPluginFilterService.java
+++ b/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/impl/filter/TestPluginFilterService.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 import org.apache.orc.filter.BatchFilter;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
-import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
diff --git a/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/impl/filter/TestPluginFilters.java b/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/impl/filter/TestPluginFilters.java
index bc5535fe974..85ec869dbad 100644
--- a/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/impl/filter/TestPluginFilters.java
+++ b/java/core/src/test/org/apache/orc/impl/filter/TestPluginFilters.java
@@ -24,19 +24,12 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.sarg.SearchArgumentFactory;
 import org.apache.orc.OrcConf;
 import org.apache.orc.OrcFile;
-import org.apache.orc.OrcFilterContext;
 import org.apache.orc.Reader;
-import org.apache.orc.TypeDescription;
 import org.apache.orc.filter.BatchFilter;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
-import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.function.Consumer;
-
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertArrayEquals;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
 public class TestPluginFilters extends ATestFilter {
diff --git a/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapred/TestOrcOutputFormat.java b/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapred/TestOrcOutputFormat.java
index a95d73a3f5c..721560b562c 100644
--- a/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapred/TestOrcOutputFormat.java
+++ b/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapred/TestOrcOutputFormat.java
@@ -42,13 +42,11 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.RecordWriter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Reporter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskAttemptContext;
-import org.apache.hadoop.util.Progressable;
 import org.apache.orc.CompressionKind;
 import org.apache.orc.OrcConf;
 import org.apache.orc.OrcFile;
 import org.apache.orc.Reader;
 import org.apache.orc.TypeDescription;
-import org.apache.orc.Writer;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import java.io.File;
diff --git a/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapreduce/TestMapreduceOrcOutputFormat.java b/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapreduce/TestMapreduceOrcOutputFormat.java
index d8c7d6fb71c..82e4a8944b6 100644
--- a/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapreduce/TestMapreduceOrcOutputFormat.java
+++ b/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapreduce/TestMapreduceOrcOutputFormat.java
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 
 package org.apache.orc.mapreduce;
 
-import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.sarg.PredicateLeaf;
@@ -40,7 +39,6 @@
 import org.apache.orc.OrcFile;
 import org.apache.orc.Reader;
 import org.apache.orc.TypeDescription;
-import org.apache.orc.Writer;
 import org.apache.orc.mapred.OrcKey;
 import org.apache.orc.mapred.OrcStruct;
 import org.apache.orc.mapred.OrcValue;
diff --git a/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapreduce/TestMrUnit.java b/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapreduce/TestMrUnit.java
index e47b22d046c..aaef09559f7 100644
--- a/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapreduce/TestMrUnit.java
+++ b/java/mapreduce/src/test/org/apache/orc/mapreduce/TestMrUnit.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorizedRowBatch;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.DataInputBuffer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
diff --git a/java/tools/src/test/org/apache/orc/tools/TestJsonFileDump.java b/java/tools/src/test/org/apache/orc/tools/TestJsonFileDump.java
index f226ae115f6..609129e905d 100644
--- a/java/tools/src/test/org/apache/orc/tools/TestJsonFileDump.java
+++ b/java/tools/src/test/org/apache/orc/tools/TestJsonFileDump.java
@@ -32,19 +32,12 @@
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
-import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.Random;
-
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
-
 public class TestJsonFileDump {
 
   public static String getFileFromClasspath(String name) {