Spring Boot Cucumber Test with Junit 5 will not load application-test.properties

I am not able to get my Cucumber test to read from the application-test.properties file, which resides in the test/resources folder. The cucumber test is reading the features, but the application fails to start because the @Value annotation does not pick up the value from the application-test.properties file (value is null). So all the tests fail. The cucumber tests were working fine with Junit 4. Why are my cucumber tests unable to read from the application-properties file?

In one of my application classes, I am using the @Value("${connection.string}") annotation to retrieve a hard-coded connection string in the application-test.properties file. The connection string is null, so the application fails to start due to an instantiation error.

Properties file can be found at: test/resources/application-test.properties, target/test-classes/application-test.properties

Here is my Application class:

@SpringBootApplication
@EntityScan(basePackages = { "com.sams.payout.models.dto" })
@ComponentScan(basePackages = { "com.sams.payout", "com.samcash" })
@Slf4j
public class SampleSpringApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SampleSpringApplication.class, args);
        log.info("Application Started");
    }
}

Here is the test app:

@CucumberContextConfiguration
@SpringBootTest(classes = SampleSpringApplication.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = TestHelper.class)
@ActiveProfiles("test")
public class SampleTestApp {
}

Here is the functional test:

@Suite
@IncludeEngines("cucumber")
@SelectClasspathResource("features")
@ConfigurationParameters({
        @ConfigurationParameter(key = PLUGIN_PROPERTY_NAME, value = "pretty,json:target/cucumber.json"),
        @ConfigurationParameter(key = JUNIT_PLATFORM_NAMING_STRATEGY_PROPERTY_NAME, value = "long")
})
@ActiveProfiles("test")
public class SampleFT {
}

There is nothing wrong with the cucumber tests as they work using Junit 4.

partial pom.xml:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>au.com.dius.pact.provider</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit5</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.36</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
            <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!--Functional tests -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
            <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
            <version>2.9.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-junit-platform-engine</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
            <version>${cucumber-reporting.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-core</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit-platform-suite</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

Junit version is 5.8.1, spring-boot version is 2.6.7, and Cucumber version is 7.3.3, using BOMs.

@Suite
@IncludeEngines("cucumber")
...
@ActiveProfiles("test")
public class SampleFT {
}

Here ActiveProfiles does nothing. This class isn't used to build the test application context.

@CucumberContextConfiguration
@SpringBootTest(classes = SampleSpringApplication.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = TestHelper.class)
@ActiveProfiles("test")
public class SampleTestApp {
}

This SampleTestApp is used to build the test application context because it is anotated with CucumberContextConfiguration. However both SpringBootTest and ContextConfiguration will attempt to configure the application context. Did you mean to add TestHelper to classes?