diff --git a/automl/test/automlTablesPredict.v1beta1.test.js b/automl/test/automlTablesPredict.v1beta1.test.js
index 675b73c9fd..80d1ea9349 100644
--- a/automl/test/automlTablesPredict.v1beta1.test.js
+++ b/automl/test/automlTablesPredict.v1beta1.test.js
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ const {execSync} = require('child_process');
 
 /** Tests for AutoML Tables "Prediction API" sample. */
 
-const projectId = process.env.AUTOML_PROJECT_ID;
+const projectId = process.env.AUTOML_PROJECT_ID || 'cdpe-automl-tests';
 const region = 'us-central1';
 const modelId = process.env.TABLE_MODEL_ID;
 const gcsInputUri = `gs://${projectId}-tables/predictTest.csv`;
diff --git a/automl/test/automlTranslation.test.js b/automl/test/automlTranslation.test.js
index 9cb8dfe7cf..1317ff6f84 100644
--- a/automl/test/automlTranslation.test.js
+++ b/automl/test/automlTranslation.test.js
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ const cmdDataset = 'node translate/automlTranslateCreateDataset.js';
 const cmdModel = 'node translate/automlTranslateCreateModel.js';
 const cmdPredict = 'node translate/automlTranslatePredict.js';
 
-const projectId = process.env.AUTOML_PROJECT_ID;
+const projectId = process.env.AUTOML_PROJECT_ID || 'cdpe-automl-tests';
 const datasetId = process.env.TRANSLATION_DATASET_ID;
 const modelId = process.env.TRANSLATION_MODEL_ID;