diff --git a/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/common/BaseNeuralSearchIT.java b/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/common/BaseNeuralSearchIT.java
index db5dd1fa6..fdf2459df 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/common/BaseNeuralSearchIT.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/opensearch/neuralsearch/common/BaseNeuralSearchIT.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import static org.opensearch.neuralsearch.common.VectorUtil.vectorAsListToArray;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.Collections;
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ protected void updateClusterSettings() {
         updateClusterSettings("plugins.ml_commons.only_run_on_ml_node", false);
         // default threshold for native circuit breaker is 90, it may be not enough on test runner machine
         updateClusterSettings("plugins.ml_commons.native_memory_threshold", 100);
+        updateClusterSettings("plugins.ml_commons.allow_registering_model_via_url", true);
     }
 
     @SneakyThrows
@@ -99,6 +101,10 @@ protected void updateClusterSettings(String settingKey, Object value) {
     }
 
     protected String uploadModel(String requestBody) throws Exception {
+        String modelGroupId = registerModelGroup();
+        // model group id is dynamically generated, we need to update model update request body after group is registered
+        requestBody = requestBody.replace("<MODEL_GROUP_ID>", modelGroupId);
+
         Response uploadResponse = makeRequest(
             client(),
             "POST",
@@ -677,4 +683,27 @@ protected String getDeployedModelId() {
         assertEquals(1, modelIds.size());
         return modelIds.iterator().next();
     }
+
+    @SneakyThrows
+    private String registerModelGroup() throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+        String modelGroupRegisterRequestBody = Files.readString(
+            Path.of(classLoader.getResource("processor/CreateModelGroupRequestBody.json").toURI())
+        );
+        Response modelGroupResponse = makeRequest(
+            client(),
+            "POST",
+            "/_plugins/_ml/model_groups/_register",
+            null,
+            toHttpEntity(modelGroupRegisterRequestBody),
+            ImmutableList.of(new BasicHeader(HttpHeaders.USER_AGENT, "Kibana"))
+        );
+        Map<String, Object> modelGroupResJson = XContentHelper.convertToMap(
+            XContentType.JSON.xContent(),
+            EntityUtils.toString(modelGroupResponse.getEntity()),
+            false
+        );
+        String modelGroupId = modelGroupResJson.get("model_group_id").toString();
+        assertNotNull(modelGroupId);
+        return modelGroupId;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/resources/processor/CreateModelGroupRequestBody.json b/src/test/resources/processor/CreateModelGroupRequestBody.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d6d398c76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/processor/CreateModelGroupRequestBody.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "name": "test_model_group_public",
+  "description": "This is a public model group",
+  "access_mode": "public"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources/processor/UploadModelRequestBody.json b/src/test/resources/processor/UploadModelRequestBody.json
index 9fc53f3b9..95f9c9cb5 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/processor/UploadModelRequestBody.json
+++ b/src/test/resources/processor/UploadModelRequestBody.json
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   "model_format": "TORCH_SCRIPT",
   "model_task_type": "text_embedding",
   "model_content_hash_value": "e13b74006290a9d0f58c1376f9629d4ebc05a0f9385f40db837452b167ae9021",
+  "model_group_id": "<MODEL_GROUP_ID>",
   "model_config": {
     "model_type": "bert",
     "embedding_dimension": 768,