diff --git a/tests/functional/Voltha_StartContainerPODTests.robot b/tests/functional/Voltha_StartContainerPODTests.robot
index e0c69c4..ce1bef1 100755
--- a/tests/functional/Voltha_StartContainerPODTests.robot
+++ b/tests/functional/Voltha_StartContainerPODTests.robot
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 ${HELM_CHARTS_DIR}    ~/helm-charts
 ${VOLTHA_POD_NUM}    8
 ${NAMESPACE}      voltha
+${INFRA_NAMESPACE}      default
 # For below variable value, using deployment name as using grep for
 # parsing radius pod name, we can also use full radius pod name
 ${RESTART_POD_NAME}    radius