diff --git a/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/net/BUILD.bazel b/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/net/BUILD.bazel
index 98c48258bddfb..8e510f9cf8044 100644
--- a/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/net/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/net/BUILD.bazel
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ java_library(
 java_test_suite(
     name = "SmallTests",
     size = "small",
+    tags = [
+        "no-sandbox",
+    ],
     srcs = glob(["*Test.java"]),
     deps = [
         ":net",
diff --git a/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/net/UrlCheckerTest.java b/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/net/UrlCheckerTest.java
index b390469345a38..9e5f8a13474db 100644
--- a/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/net/UrlCheckerTest.java
+++ b/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/net/UrlCheckerTest.java
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 public class UrlCheckerTest {
 
   private final UrlChecker urlChecker = new UrlChecker();
+  private final ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
   private JreAppServer server;
   private URL url;
 
@@ -50,8 +51,6 @@ public void buildServer() throws MalformedURLException {
     this.url = new URL(server.whereIs("/"));
   }
 
-  ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
-
   @Test
   public void testWaitUntilAvailableIsTimely() throws Exception {
     long delay = 200L;
@@ -88,7 +87,9 @@ public void testWaitUntilUnavailableIsTimely() throws Exception {
 
   @After
   public void cleanup() {
-    server.stop();
+    if (server != null) {
+      server.stop();
+    }
     executorService.shutdown();
   }
 }
diff --git a/java/rules.bzl b/java/rules.bzl
index b8628eaf17879..e161ef4406bfa 100644
--- a/java/rules.bzl
+++ b/java/rules.bzl
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ def java_test_suite(
     resources=None,
     deps=None,
     visibility=None,
-    size = None):
+    size = None,
+    tags = []):
 
   # By default bazel computes the name of test classes based on the
   # standard Maven directory structure, which we don't use in
@@ -90,12 +91,13 @@ def java_test_suite(
           size = size,
           test_class = test_class,
           resources = resources,
+	  tags = tags,
           deps = deps,
           visibility = ["//visibility:private"])
 
   native.test_suite(
       name = name,
       tests = tests,
-      tags = ["manual"],
+      tags = ["manual"] + tags,
       visibility = visibility)