diff --git a/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py b/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py
index 6435918d2198..47471678f5ed 100644
--- a/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py
+++ b/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py
@@ -7915,7 +7915,8 @@ def test_nvfp4_eagle3(self, tp_size, ep_size, attention_dp,
                 moe_expert_parallel_size=ep_size,
                 kv_cache_config=kv_cache_config,
                 sparse_attention_config=MiniMaxM3SparseAttentionConfig(
-                    implementation="msa" if use_msa else "triton"),
+                    implementation="msa" if use_msa else "triton",
+                    fuse_qkv_index_projection=True),
                 moe_config=MoeConfig(backend="CUTLASS"),
                 # The InferenceMAX protocol needs room for thinking output
                 # (12288 generated tokens on a ~2k chat prompt).
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt b/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
index 777c798ea661..4a8fdbb8d1ba 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
+++ b/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ full:GB200/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekV3Lite::test_bfloat16[m
 full:GB200/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekV3Lite::test_bfloat16[mtp_nextn=2-attention_dp=True-cuda_graph=True-overlap_scheduler=True-torch_compile=True-enable_chunked_prefill=True-v2_kv_cache=True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6400067)
 full:GB200/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekV3Lite::test_cute_dsl_nvfp4_4gpus[tp4-fp8kv=False-attention_dp=False-cuda_graph=False-overlap_scheduler=False-torch_compile=True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6474888)
 full:GB200/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestMiniMaxM3::test_mxfp8[use_msa=False] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6479471)
-full:GB200/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestMiniMaxM3::test_nvfp4[use_msa=False] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6479471)
+full:GB200/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestMiniMaxM3::test_nvfp4[use_msa=False-eval_mode=inferencemax] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6479471)
 full:GB200/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestNemotronV3Ultra::test_nvfp4_4gpus_block_reuse[ADP4] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6474894)
 full:GB200/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3_5_35B_A3B::test_fp8_moe_dflash SKIP (https://nvbugs/6316985)
 full:GB200/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3_5_397B_A17B::test_nvfp4_4gpus_online_eplb[moe_backend=TRTLLM] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6462928)