diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/cuda.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/cuda.yaml
index 2076eb27fc..927b5bd27f 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test_areas/cuda.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/cuda.yaml
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ steps:
   - vllm/v1/cudagraph_dispatcher.py
   - vllm/config/compilation.py
   - vllm/compilation
+  - vllm/v1/worker/encoder_cudagraph.py
+  - vllm/v1/worker/encoder_cudagraph_defs.py
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_cudagraph_dispatch.py
     - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_cudagraph_mode.py
     - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_breakable_cudagraph.py
+    - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_encoder_cudagraph.py
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/misc.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/misc.yaml
index 521040c4ef..6c33cd11e9 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test_areas/misc.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/misc.yaml
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' v1/core
     - pytest -v -s v1/structured_output
     - pytest -v -s v1/test_serial_utils.py
+    - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_cudagraph_manager.py
     - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' v1/kv_connector/unit
     - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' v1/metrics
 
diff --git a/tests/v1/cudagraph/test_encoder_cudagraph.py b/tests/v1/cudagraph/test_encoder_cudagraph.py
index ed816d817c..45c7a503a8 100644
--- a/tests/v1/cudagraph/test_encoder_cudagraph.py
+++ b/tests/v1/cudagraph/test_encoder_cudagraph.py
@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ def _make_manager_with_budgets(budgets: list[int]) -> EncoderCudaGraphManager:
     mgr.token_budgets = sorted(budgets)
     mgr.max_batch_size = 16
     mgr.use_dp = False
+    mgr.config = EncoderCudaGraphConfig(
+        modalities=["image"],
+        buffer_keys=[],
+        out_hidden_size=32,
+    )
     mgr.budget_graphs = {"default": {}}
     mgr.graph_pool = None
     mgr.graph_hits = 0