diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/pom.xml
index ea714358e9d..43a6295967f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/pom.xml
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.curator</groupId>
       <artifactId>curator-test</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
@@ -205,9 +206,11 @@
       <groupId>org.fusesource.leveldbjni</groupId>
       <artifactId>leveldbjni-all</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <!-- 'mvn dependency:analyze' fails to detect use of this dependency -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
       <type>test-jar</type>
     </dependency>
     <!-- 'mvn dependency:analyze' fails to detect use of this dependency -->