diff --git a/.buildkite/pipelines/on_merge.yml b/.buildkite/pipelines/on_merge.yml
index 04a025d99b503..c5ca5f092ff6e 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipelines/on_merge.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipelines/on_merge.yml
@@ -487,7 +487,6 @@ steps:
       provider: gcp
       machineType: n2-standard-4
       preemptible: true
-    depends_on: build
     timeout_in_minutes: 120
     parallelism: 3
     retry:
@@ -503,7 +502,6 @@ steps:
       provider: gcp
       machineType: n2-standard-4
       preemptible: true
-    depends_on: build
     timeout_in_minutes: 120
     parallelism: 3
     retry: