diff --git a/hibernate-envers/hibernate-envers.gradle b/hibernate-envers/hibernate-envers.gradle
index 34d2bb000e..4aa7eb2ee8 100644
--- a/hibernate-envers/hibernate-envers.gradle
+++ b/hibernate-envers/hibernate-envers.gradle
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ dependencies {
     testCompile( libraries.junit )
     testCompile( project(':hibernate-testing') )
     testCompile( libraries.jpa )
-    testCompile( project(':hibernate-ehcache') ) {
-        exclude group: 'org.slf4j'
-    }
     testRuntime( libraries.h2 )
     testRuntime( libraries.javassist )
 }
diff --git a/hibernate-envers/src/test/java/org/hibernate/envers/test/integration/cache/HibernateSecLvlQueryCache.java b/hibernate-envers/src/test/java/org/hibernate/envers/test/integration/cache/HibernateSecLvlQueryCache.java
deleted file mode 100644
index e3070f50a4..0000000000
--- a/hibernate-envers/src/test/java/org/hibernate/envers/test/integration/cache/HibernateSecLvlQueryCache.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-package org.hibernate.envers.test.integration.cache;
-
-import org.hibernate.MappingException;
-import org.hibernate.cfg.Environment;
-import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor;
-import org.hibernate.envers.RevisionType;
-import org.hibernate.envers.query.criteria.RevisionTypeAuditExpression;
-import org.hibernate.envers.test.AbstractSessionTest;
-import org.hibernate.envers.test.Priority;
-import org.hibernate.envers.test.entities.StrTestEntity;
-import org.hibernate.testing.TestForIssue;
-import org.hibernate.testing.cache.CachingRegionFactory;
-
-import org.junit.Assert;
-import org.junit.Test;
-
-import java.net.URISyntaxException;
-
-/**
- * @author Lukasz Antoniak (lukasz dot antoniak at gmail dot com)
- */
-public class HibernateSecLvlQueryCache extends AbstractSessionTest {
-    private static final String QUERY_CACHE_REGION = "queryCacheRegion";
-
-    @Override
-    protected void initMappings() throws MappingException, URISyntaxException {
-        config.addAnnotatedClass(StrTestEntity.class);
-        config.setProperty(Environment.USE_SECOND_LEVEL_CACHE, "true");
-        config.setProperty(Environment.USE_QUERY_CACHE, "true");
-		//i don't see there is any specific reason that we need ehcache, so change it to the testing cache
-        config.setProperty(Environment.CACHE_REGION_FACTORY, CachingRegionFactory.class.getName());
-//        config.setProperty(Environment.CACHE_PROVIDER_CONFIG, "ehcache-test.xml");
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    @Priority(10)
-    public void initData() {
-        // Revision 1
-        getSession().getTransaction().begin();
-        StrTestEntity ste = new StrTestEntity("data");
-        getSession().persist(ste);
-        getSession().getTransaction().commit();
-
-        // Evicting old query cache.
-        getSession().getSessionFactory().getCache().evictQueryRegion(QUERY_CACHE_REGION);
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    @TestForIssue(jiraKey="HHH-5025")
-    public void testSecLvlCacheWithRevisionTypeDiskPersistent() throws InterruptedException {
-        // Cached query that requires serializing RevisionType variable when persisting to disk.
-        getAuditReader().createQuery().forEntitiesAtRevision(StrTestEntity.class, 1)
-                                      .add(new RevisionTypeAuditExpression(RevisionType.ADD, "="))
-                                      .setCacheable(true).setCacheRegion(QUERY_CACHE_REGION).getResultList();
-
-        // Waiting max 3 seconds for cached data to persist to disk.
-        for (int i=0; i<30; i++) {
-            if (getQueryCacheSize() > 0) {
-                break;
-            }
-
-            Thread.sleep(100);
-        }
-
-        Assert.assertTrue(getQueryCacheSize() > 0);
-    }
-
-    private int getQueryCacheSize() {
-        // Statistics are not notified about persisting cached data failure. However, cache entry gets evicted.
-        // See DiskWriteTask.call() method (net.sf.ehcache.store.compound.factories.DiskStorageFactory).
-        SessionFactoryImplementor sessionFactoryImplementor = (SessionFactoryImplementor) getSession().getSessionFactory();
-        return sessionFactoryImplementor.getQueryCache(QUERY_CACHE_REGION).getRegion().toMap().size();
-    }
-}