diff --git a/samza-test/src/main/config/negate-number.properties b/samza-test/src/main/config/negate-number.properties
index 01b7f7e..1829008 100644
--- a/samza-test/src/main/config/negate-number.properties
+++ b/samza-test/src/main/config/negate-number.properties
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
 # YARN
 yarn.container.count=1
 
+# Config Loader
+job.config.loader.factory=org.apache.samza.config.loaders.PropertiesConfigLoaderFactory
+job.config.loader.properties.path=./__package/config/negate-number.properties
+
 # Task
 task.class=org.apache.samza.test.integration.NegateNumberTask
 task.inputs=kafka.samza-test-topic
diff --git a/samza-test/src/main/config/perf/container-performance.properties b/samza-test/src/main/config/perf/container-performance.properties
index 7dcab02..1f6656b 100644
--- a/samza-test/src/main/config/perf/container-performance.properties
+++ b/samza-test/src/main/config/perf/container-performance.properties
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
 yarn.container.count=1
 yarn.container.memory.mb=4096
 
+# Config Loader
+job.config.loader.factory=org.apache.samza.config.loaders.PropertiesConfigLoaderFactory
+job.config.loader.properties.path=./__package/config/perf/container-performance.properties
+
 # Task
 task.opts=-Xmx3072m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
 task.class=org.apache.samza.test.performance.TestPerformanceTask
diff --git a/samza-test/src/main/config/perf/kafka-read-write-performance.properties b/samza-test/src/main/config/perf/kafka-read-write-performance.properties
index f5ca601..9bf7263 100644
--- a/samza-test/src/main/config/perf/kafka-read-write-performance.properties
+++ b/samza-test/src/main/config/perf/kafka-read-write-performance.properties
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
 # YARN
 yarn.container.count=1
 
+# Config Loader
+job.config.loader.factory=org.apache.samza.config.loaders.PropertiesConfigLoaderFactory
+job.config.loader.properties.path=./__package/config/perf/kafka-read-write-performance.properties
+
 # Task
 task.class=org.apache.samza.test.performance.TestPerformanceTask
 task.inputs=kafka.kafka-read-write-performance-input
diff --git a/samza-test/src/main/python/deployment.py b/samza-test/src/main/python/deployment.py
index 0b72cc6..a4a4546 100644
--- a/samza-test/src/main/python/deployment.py
+++ b/samza-test/src/main/python/deployment.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
 import os
 import logging
-import shutil
 import urllib
 import zopkio.runtime as runtime
 import zopkio.adhoc_deployer as adhoc_deployer
@@ -76,7 +75,6 @@
 
   # Setup Samza job deployer.
   samza_job_deployer = SamzaJobYarnDeployer({
-    'config_loader_factory': c('samza_config_loader_factory'),
     'yarn_site_template': c('yarn_site_template'),
     'yarn_driver_configs': c('yarn_driver_configs'),
     'yarn_nm_hosts': c('yarn_nm_hosts').values(),
diff --git a/samza-test/src/main/python/samza_job_yarn_deployer.py b/samza-test/src/main/python/samza_job_yarn_deployer.py
index 8a785ac..e1dc92e 100644
--- a/samza-test/src/main/python/samza_job_yarn_deployer.py
+++ b/samza-test/src/main/python/samza_job_yarn_deployer.py
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@
     package_id: The package_id for the package that contains the code for job_id.
     Usually, the package_id refers to the .tgz job tarball that contains the
     code necessary to run job_id.
-    config_loader_factory: The config loader factory to use to decode the config_file.
     config_file: Path to the config file for the job to be run.
     install_path: Path where the package for the job has been installed on remote NMs.
     properties: (optional) [(property-name,property-value)] Optional override
@@ -115,18 +114,17 @@
     config_file's properties.
     """
     configs = self._get_merged_configs(configs)
-    self._validate_configs(configs, ['package_id', 'config_loader_factory', 'config_file', 'install_path'])
+    self._validate_configs(configs, ['package_id', 'config_file', 'install_path'])
 
     # Get configs.
     package_id = configs.get('package_id')
-    config_loader_factory = configs.get('config_loader_factory')
     config_file = configs.get('config_file')
     install_path = configs.get('install_path')
     properties = configs.get('properties', {})
     properties['yarn.package.path'] = 'file:' + os.path.join(install_path, self._get_package_tgz_name(package_id))
 
     # Execute bin/run-job.sh locally from driver machine.
-    command = "{0} --config job.config.loader.factory={1} --config job.config.loader.properties.path={2}".format(os.path.join(package_id, "bin/run-job.sh"), config_loader_factory, os.path.join(package_id, config_file))
+    command = "{0} --config-path={1}".format(os.path.join(package_id, "bin/run-app.sh"), os.path.join(package_id, config_file))
     env = self._get_env_vars(package_id)
     for property_name, property_value in properties.iteritems():
       command += " --config {0}={1}".format(property_name, property_value)
diff --git a/samza-test/src/main/python/tests/smoke_tests.py b/samza-test/src/main/python/tests/smoke_tests.py
index 53d5fa9..a8fb9b1 100644
--- a/samza-test/src/main/python/tests/smoke_tests.py
+++ b/samza-test/src/main/python/tests/smoke_tests.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 def test_samza_job():
   """
-  Runs a job that reads converts input strings to integers, negates the 
+  Runs a job that reads converts input strings to integers, negates the
   integer, and outputs to a Kafka topic.
   """
   _load_data()
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 def validate_samza_job():
   """
-  Validates that negate-number negated all messages, and sent the output to 
+  Validates that negate-number negated all messages, and sent the output to
   samza-test-topic-output.
   """
   logger.info('Running validate_samza_job')