diff --git a/ci/L0_backend_vllm/enabled_stream/enabled_stream_test.py b/ci/L0_backend_vllm/enabled_stream/enabled_stream_test.py
index 5d82333e..79452609 100644
--- a/ci/L0_backend_vllm/enabled_stream/enabled_stream_test.py
+++ b/ci/L0_backend_vllm/enabled_stream/enabled_stream_test.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ async def request_iterator():
                 result, error = response
                 if expect_error:
                     self.assertIsInstance(error, InferenceServerException)
-                    self.assertEquals(
+                    self.assertEqual(
                         error.message(),
                         "Error generating stream: When streaming, `exclude_input_in_output` = False is not allowed.",
                         error,
diff --git a/ci/L0_backend_vllm/test.sh b/ci/L0_backend_vllm/test.sh
index a9f89894..074c0a8c 100755
--- a/ci/L0_backend_vllm/test.sh
+++ b/ci/L0_backend_vllm/test.sh
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 RET=0
 SUBTESTS="accuracy_test request_cancellation enabled_stream vllm_backend metrics_test"
 
-python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip && pip3 install tritonclient[grpc]
+python3 -m pip install tritonclient[grpc]
 
 for TEST in ${SUBTESTS}; do
     (cd ${TEST} && bash -ex test.sh && cd ..)
diff --git a/ci/L0_multi_gpu_vllm/test.sh b/ci/L0_multi_gpu_vllm/test.sh
index 50e10d0b..59123f13 100755
--- a/ci/L0_multi_gpu_vllm/test.sh
+++ b/ci/L0_multi_gpu_vllm/test.sh
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 RET=0
 SUBTESTS="vllm_backend multi_lora"
 
-python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip && pip3 install tritonclient[grpc]
+python3 -m pip install tritonclient[grpc]
 
 for TEST in ${SUBTESTS}; do
     (cd ${TEST} && bash -ex test.sh && cd ..)