diff --git a/test/e2e/query_frontend_test.go b/test/e2e/query_frontend_test.go
index a7d6c3511fc..2d94fc46b0e 100644
--- a/test/e2e/query_frontend_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/query_frontend_test.go
@@ -81,8 +81,6 @@ func TestQueryFrontend(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 	})
 
-	RemoteWrite(seriest, q.InternalEndpoint("http"))
-
 	inMemoryCacheConfig := queryfrontend.CacheProviderConfig{
 		Type: queryfrontend.INMEMORY,
 		Config: queryfrontend.InMemoryResponseCacheConfig{
@@ -98,6 +96,8 @@ func TestQueryFrontend(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), time.Minute)
 	t.Cleanup(cancel)
 
+	RemoteWrite(ctx, seriest, q.InternalEndpoint("http"))
+
 	testutil.Ok(t, q.WaitSumMetricsWithOptions(e2emon.Equals(1), []string{"thanos_store_nodes_grpc_connections"}, e2emon.WaitMissingMetrics()))
 
 	// Ensure we can get the result from Querier first so that it