diff --git a/test/python/testapi/testencoding.py b/test/python/testapi/testencoding.py
index e99c0b372..749a4eb62 100644
--- a/test/python/testapi/testencoding.py
+++ b/test/python/testapi/testencoding.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def testImages(self):
 
     def testInvalidInputs(self):
         """
-        Tests invalid parameter inputs
+        Test invalid parameter inputs
         """
 
         response = self.client.post("addimage", data={"uid": [0, 1]}, files={"data": b"123"})
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ def testInvalidInputs(self):
 
     def testInvalidJSON(self):
         """
-        Tests that invalid JSON raises an exception
+        Test that invalid JSON raises an exception
         """
 
         with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ def testObjects(self):
 
     def testReadOnly(self):
         """
-        Tests read only indexes
+        Test read only indexes
         """
 
         # Recreate model with standard object encoding
diff --git a/test/python/testdatabase/testrdbms.py b/test/python/testdatabase/testrdbms.py
index cb62c5f2b..18f6a73f5 100644
--- a/test/python/testdatabase/testrdbms.py
+++ b/test/python/testdatabase/testrdbms.py
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ def testMultiSave(self):
 
         def testNoIndex(self):
             """
-            Tests an embeddings instance with no available indexes
+            Test an embeddings instance with no available indexes
             """
 
             # Disable top-level indexing
diff --git a/test/python/testmodels/testmodels.py b/test/python/testmodels/testmodels.py
index e04d3638f..c67667bb1 100644
--- a/test/python/testmodels/testmodels.py
+++ b/test/python/testmodels/testmodels.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def testDeviceid(self, cuda):
 
     def testDevice(self):
         """
-        Tests the device method
+        Test the device method
         """
 
         # pylint: disable=E1101
diff --git a/test/python/testmodels/testpooling.py b/test/python/testmodels/testpooling.py
index 9cf6bb72a..8f47e4d58 100644
--- a/test/python/testmodels/testpooling.py
+++ b/test/python/testmodels/testpooling.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def testLength(self):
 
     def testMean(self):
         """
-        Tests mean pooling
+        Test mean pooling
         """
 
         # Test mean pooling
diff --git a/test/python/testscoring.py b/test/python/testscoring.py
index 13f7801b7..11c54e77c 100644
--- a/test/python/testscoring.py
+++ b/test/python/testscoring.py
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ def copy(self, config):
     @patch("sys.byteorder", "big")
     def settings(self, config):
         """
-        Tests various settings.
+        Test various settings.
 
         Args:
             config: scoring config