diff --git a/tests/v1/e2e/general/test_correctness_sliding_window.py b/tests/v1/e2e/general/test_correctness_sliding_window.py
index 01d60444170..a8a29203d9e 100644
--- a/tests/v1/e2e/general/test_correctness_sliding_window.py
+++ b/tests/v1/e2e/general/test_correctness_sliding_window.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ model_config = {
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("seed", [1])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("disable_hybrid_kv_cache_manager", [True, False])
 def test_sliding_window_retrieval(
-    model, batch_size, seed, disable_hybrid_kv_cache_manager
+    model, batch_size, seed, disable_hybrid_kv_cache_manager, vllm_runner
 ):
     """
     The test does a bunch of assignments "x1 = 10\nx2 = 33\n..." and then
@@ -48,34 +48,39 @@ def test_sliding_window_retrieval(
 
     test_config = model_config[model]
 
-    llm = LLM(
-        model=model,
+    with vllm_runner(
+        model,
+        max_model_len=None,
+        enable_chunked_prefill=None,
         disable_hybrid_kv_cache_manager=disable_hybrid_kv_cache_manager,
         enforce_eager=enforce_eager,
-    )
-    sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.0, max_tokens=100)
+    ) as runner:
+        llm = runner.get_llm()
+        sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.0, max_tokens=100)
 
-    prompts, answer, indices = prep_prompts(batch_size, ln_range=test_config.ln_range)
+        prompts, answer, indices = prep_prompts(
+            batch_size, ln_range=test_config.ln_range
+        )
 
-    check_length(prompts, llm, test_config.sliding_window)
+        check_length(prompts, llm, test_config.sliding_window)
 
-    # Fresh generation
-    responses = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
-    check_answers(
-        indices,
-        answer,
-        [response.outputs[0].text for response in responses],
-        accept_rate=1.0,
-    )
+        # Fresh generation
+        responses = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
+        check_answers(
+            indices,
+            answer,
+            [response.outputs[0].text for response in responses],
+            accept_rate=1.0,
+        )
 
-    # Re-generate with the same prompts to test prefix caching
-    responses = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
-    check_answers(
-        indices,
-        answer,
-        [response.outputs[0].text for response in responses],
-        accept_rate=1.0,
-    )
+        # Re-generate with the same prompts to test prefix caching
+        responses = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
+        check_answers(
+            indices,
+            answer,
+            [response.outputs[0].text for response in responses],
+            accept_rate=1.0,
+        )
 
 
 def check_length(prompts: list[str], llm: LLM, sliding_window: int):