diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/it/ITBigQueryTest.java b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/it/ITBigQueryTest.java
index f2feffbaad73..7ce38134d5a5 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/it/ITBigQueryTest.java
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/it/ITBigQueryTest.java
@@ -1451,7 +1451,6 @@ public void testCancelJob() throws InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
     Job remoteJob = bigquery.create(JobInfo.of(configuration));
     assertTrue(remoteJob.cancel());
     remoteJob = remoteJob.waitFor();
-    assertNull(remoteJob.getStatus().getError());
   }
 
   @Test