diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/multi_process_shared_test.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/multi_process_shared_test.py
index 7b2b11857bfd..2a8d025e5b4f 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/multi_process_shared_test.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/multi_process_shared_test.py
@@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ def setUp(self):
     for tag in ['basic',
                 'main',
                 'to_delete',
+                'to_retain',
                 'mix1',
                 'mix2',
                 'test_process_exit',
@@ -323,7 +324,8 @@ def test_unsafe_hard_delete_autoproxywrapper(self):
     shared2 = multi_process_shared.MultiProcessShared(
         Counter, tag='to_delete', always_proxy=True, spawn_process=True)
     counter3 = multi_process_shared.MultiProcessShared(
-        Counter, tag='basic', always_proxy=True, spawn_process=True).acquire()
+        Counter, tag='to_retain', always_proxy=True,
+        spawn_process=True).acquire()
 
     counter1 = shared1.acquire()
     counter2 = shared2.acquire()