diff --git a/cucumber/authenticators_oidc/features/authn_oidc_proxy.feature b/cucumber/authenticators_oidc/features/authn_oidc_proxy.feature
index e968e3d2ff..e246d6765c 100644
--- a/cucumber/authenticators_oidc/features/authn_oidc_proxy.feature
+++ b/cucumber/authenticators_oidc/features/authn_oidc_proxy.feature
@@ -150,8 +150,6 @@ Feature: OIDC Authenticator V2 - Users can authenticate with OIDC authenticator
   @negative @acceptance
   Scenario: Unauthenticated is raised in case of an invalid HTTPS_PROXY setting
     Given I fetch a code for username "alice" and password "alice" from "keycloak2"
-    And I authenticate via OIDC V2 with code
-    And user "alice" has been authorized by Conjur
     When I set environment variable "HTTPS_PROXY" to "https://fakeproxy"
     # And I add the secret value "https://keycloak:1234" to the resource "cucumber:variable:conjur/authn-oidc/keycloak2/provider-uri"
     And I save my place in the log file
@@ -165,8 +163,6 @@ Feature: OIDC Authenticator V2 - Users can authenticate with OIDC authenticator
   @negative @acceptance
   Scenario: Unauthenticated is raised in case of an invalid https_proxy setting
     Given I fetch a code for username "alice" and password "alice" from "keycloak2"
-    And I authenticate via OIDC V2 with code
-    And user "alice" has been authorized by Conjur
     When I set environment variable "https_proxy" to "https://fakeproxy"
     # And I add the secret value "https://keycloak:1234" to the resource "cucumber:variable:conjur/authn-oidc/keycloak2/provider-uri"
     And I save my place in the log file
@@ -180,8 +176,6 @@ Feature: OIDC Authenticator V2 - Users can authenticate with OIDC authenticator
   @negative @acceptance
   Scenario: Unauthenticated is raised in case of an invalid HTTP_PROXY setting
     Given I fetch a code for username "alice" and password "alice" from "keycloak2"
-    And I authenticate via OIDC V2 with code
-    And user "alice" has been authorized by Conjur
     When I set environment variable "HTTP_PROXY" to "http://fakeproxy"
     # And I add the secret value "http://keycloak:1234" to the resource "cucumber:variable:conjur/authn-oidc/keycloak2/provider-uri"
     And I save my place in the log file
@@ -195,8 +189,6 @@ Feature: OIDC Authenticator V2 - Users can authenticate with OIDC authenticator
   @negative @acceptance
   Scenario: Unauthenticated is raised in case of an invalid http_proxy setting
     Given I fetch a code for username "alice" and password "alice" from "keycloak2"
-    And I authenticate via OIDC V2 with code
-    And user "alice" has been authorized by Conjur
     When I set environment variable "http_proxy" to "http://fakeproxy"
     # And I add the secret value "http://keycloak:1234" to the resource "cucumber:variable:conjur/authn-oidc/keycloak2/provider-uri"
     And I save my place in the log file