@@ -19,9 +19,7 @@
 import static com.google.common.truth.TruthJUnit.assume;
 
 import com.google.api.core.ApiFunction;
-import com.google.api.gax.core.FixedCredentialsProvider;
 import com.google.api.gax.grpc.InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider;
-import com.google.auth.oauth2.ComputeEngineCredentials;
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.BigtableDataClient;
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.BigtableDataSettings;
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.test_helpers.env.AbstractTestEnv.ConnectionMode;
@@ -127,9 +125,7 @@ public ManagedChannelBuilder apply(ManagedChannelBuilder builder) {
 
     settingsBuilder
         .stubSettings()
-        .setTransportChannelProvider(instrumentedTransportChannelProvider)
-        // Forcefully ignore GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
-        .setCredentialsProvider(FixedCredentialsProvider.create(ComputeEngineCredentials.create()));
+        .setTransportChannelProvider(instrumentedTransportChannelProvider);
 
     instrumentedClient = BigtableDataClient.create(settingsBuilder.build());
   }
 
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.sql.ResultSet;
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.sql.SqlType;
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.sql.Struct;
+import com.google.cloud.bigtable.test_helpers.env.AbstractTestEnv;
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.test_helpers.env.EmulatorEnv;
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.test_helpers.env.TestEnvRule;
 import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
@@ -59,6 +60,12 @@ public static void setUpAll() throws IOException {
         .withMessage("ExecuteQuery is not supported on Emulator")
         .that(testEnvRule.env())
         .isNotInstanceOf(EmulatorEnv.class);
+    assume()
+        .withMessage("ExecuteQuery only works over CloudPath")
+        .that(testEnvRule.env().getConnectionMode())
+        .isNoneOf(
+            AbstractTestEnv.ConnectionMode.REQUIRE_DIRECT_PATH,
+            AbstractTestEnv.ConnectionMode.REQUIRE_DIRECT_PATH_IPV4);
 
     tableId = testEnvRule.env().getTableId();
     dataClient = testEnvRule.env().getDataClient();