diff --git a/qa/restart-upgrade/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/bwc/HybridSearchIT.java b/qa/restart-upgrade/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/bwc/HybridSearchIT.java
index dd2c806aa..36dfef02f 100644
--- a/qa/restart-upgrade/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/bwc/HybridSearchIT.java
+++ b/qa/restart-upgrade/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/bwc/HybridSearchIT.java
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.opensearch.index.query.MatchQueryBuilder;
+
+import static org.opensearch.knn.index.query.KNNQueryBuilder.EXPAND_NESTED_FIELD;
+import static org.opensearch.neuralsearch.common.MinClusterVersionUtil.isClusterOnOrAfterMinReqVersion;
 import static org.opensearch.neuralsearch.util.TestUtils.getModelId;
 import static org.opensearch.neuralsearch.util.TestUtils.NODES_BWC_CLUSTER;
 import static org.opensearch.neuralsearch.util.TestUtils.PARAM_NAME_WEIGHTS;
@@ -73,7 +76,7 @@ private void validateNormalizationProcessor(final String fileName, final String
                 addDocuments(getIndexNameForTest(), false);
                 HybridQueryBuilder hybridQueryBuilder = getQueryBuilder(modelId, null, null, null);
                 validateTestIndex(getIndexNameForTest(), searchPipelineName, hybridQueryBuilder);
-                hybridQueryBuilder = getQueryBuilder(modelId, Boolean.TRUE, Map.of("ef_search", 100), RescoreContext.getDefault());
+                hybridQueryBuilder = getQueryBuilder(modelId, Boolean.FALSE, Map.of("ef_search", 100), RescoreContext.getDefault());
                 validateTestIndex(getIndexNameForTest(), searchPipelineName, hybridQueryBuilder);
             } finally {
                 wipeOfTestResources(getIndexNameForTest(), pipelineName, modelId, searchPipelineName);
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ private HybridQueryBuilder getQueryBuilder(
         neuralQueryBuilder.modelId(modelId);
         neuralQueryBuilder.queryText(QUERY);
         neuralQueryBuilder.k(5);
-        if (expandNestedDocs != null) {
+        if (isClusterOnOrAfterMinReqVersion(EXPAND_NESTED_FIELD.getPreferredName()) && expandNestedDocs != null) {
             neuralQueryBuilder.expandNested(expandNestedDocs);
         }
         if (methodParameters != null) {