diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index f06dcee5ef8fd..d8130669d9fbd 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ build:fuzzer --features=fuzzer
 
 # Always allow tests to symbolize themselves with whatever `llvm-symbolize` is
 # in the users environment.
-test --test_env=ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH
+build --test_env=ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH
 
 # Force actions to have a UTF-8 language encoding.
 # TODO: Need to investigate what this should be on Windows, but at least for