diff --git a/modules/rank-eval/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/rankeval/MeanReciprocalRankTests.java b/modules/rank-eval/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/rankeval/MeanReciprocalRankTests.java
index c9ff39bbd118a..a5597873103bc 100644
--- a/modules/rank-eval/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/rankeval/MeanReciprocalRankTests.java
+++ b/modules/rank-eval/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/rankeval/MeanReciprocalRankTests.java
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Vector;
 
 import static org.elasticsearch.test.EqualsHashCodeTestUtils.checkEqualsAndHashCode;
 import static org.elasticsearch.test.XContentTestUtils.insertRandomFields;
@@ -146,7 +145,7 @@ public void testPrecisionAtFiveRelevanceThreshold() {
 
     public void testCombine() {
         MeanReciprocalRank reciprocalRank = new MeanReciprocalRank();
-        Vector<EvalQueryQuality> partialResults = new Vector<>(3);
+        List<EvalQueryQuality> partialResults = new ArrayList<>(3);
         partialResults.add(new EvalQueryQuality("id1", 0.5));
         partialResults.add(new EvalQueryQuality("id2", 1.0));
         partialResults.add(new EvalQueryQuality("id3", 0.75));
diff --git a/modules/rank-eval/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/rankeval/PrecisionAtKTests.java b/modules/rank-eval/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/rankeval/PrecisionAtKTests.java
index 3efff57920b84..c65ad76fdf9af 100644
--- a/modules/rank-eval/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/rankeval/PrecisionAtKTests.java
+++ b/modules/rank-eval/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/rankeval/PrecisionAtKTests.java
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Vector;
 
 import static org.elasticsearch.test.EqualsHashCodeTestUtils.checkEqualsAndHashCode;
 import static org.elasticsearch.test.XContentTestUtils.insertRandomFields;
@@ -163,7 +162,7 @@ public void testParseFromXContent() throws IOException {
 
     public void testCombine() {
         PrecisionAtK metric = new PrecisionAtK();
-        Vector<EvalQueryQuality> partialResults = new Vector<>(3);
+        List<EvalQueryQuality> partialResults = new ArrayList<>(3);
         partialResults.add(new EvalQueryQuality("a", 0.1));
         partialResults.add(new EvalQueryQuality("b", 0.2));
         partialResults.add(new EvalQueryQuality("c", 0.6));