diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/VariantSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/VariantSuite.scala
index 16be9558409c..6510a165e258 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/VariantSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/VariantSuite.scala
@@ -820,7 +820,9 @@ class VariantSuite extends QueryTest with SharedSparkSession with ExpressionEval
        // The initial size of the buffer backing a cached dataframe column is 128KB.
        // See `ColumnBuilder`.
       val numKeys = 128 * 1024
-      val keyIterator = (0 until numKeys).iterator
+      // We start in long range because the shredded writer writes int64 by default which wouldn't
+      // match narrower binaries.
+      val keyIterator = (Int.MaxValue + 1L until Int.MaxValue + 1L + numKeys).iterator
       val entries = Array.fill(numKeys)(s"""\"${keyIterator.next()}\": \"test\"""")
       val jsonStr = s"{${entries.mkString(", ")}}"
       val query = s"""select named_struct(
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetVariantShreddingSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetVariantShreddingSuite.scala
index 1f06ddb29bd4..1cc6d3afbee5 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetVariantShreddingSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetVariantShreddingSuite.scala
@@ -379,7 +379,8 @@ class ParquetVariantShreddingSuite extends QueryTest with ParquetTest with Share
       "struct<value binary, typed_value int>>>"
     withSQLConf(SQLConf.VARIANT_WRITE_SHREDDING_ENABLED.key -> true.toString,
       SQLConf.VARIANT_ALLOW_READING_SHREDDED.key -> true.toString,
-      SQLConf.VARIANT_FORCE_SHREDDING_SCHEMA_FOR_TEST.key -> schema) {
+      SQLConf.VARIANT_FORCE_SHREDDING_SCHEMA_FOR_TEST.key -> schema,
+      SQLConf.PARQUET_IGNORE_VARIANT_ANNOTATION.key -> true.toString) {
       df.write.mode("overwrite").parquet(dir.getAbsolutePath)
 
       // Verify that we can read the full variant.