diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index a6627f2a2ff1..7e7b80562352 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -706,11 +706,11 @@ jobs:
       AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: ${{ vars.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }}
       AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ vars.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
       AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+      FIREBASE_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.FIREBASE_PRIVATE_KEY }}
       AWS_ROLE: ${{ vars.AWS_ROLE }}
       AZURE_SP_TENANT: ${{ vars.AZURE_SP_TENANT }}
       AZURE_SP_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_PASSWORD }}
       AZURE_SP_NAME: ${{ vars.AZURE_SP_NAME }}
-      FIREBASE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.FIREBASE_TOKEN }}
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/README.md b/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/README.md
index a060dbc36cae..49dfe32e3f16 100644
--- a/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/README.md
+++ b/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/README.md
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ For more install methods, follow the [official install docs](https://firebase.go
 
 ### Firebase authentication
 
-A [firebase token](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cli#cli-ci-systems) needs to be set with the environment variable `FIREBASE_TOKEN`.
+A [firebase private key](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/auth-server#provide-credentials-manually) needs to be set with the environment variable `FIREBASE_PRIVATE_KEY`.
 
-If you use an interactive login using `firebase login`, you need to temporarily edit `run.sh` and remove the `--token` parameter so the firebase will use your credentials saved by `firebase login`.
+If you use an interactive login using `firebase login`, you need to temporarily edit `run.sh` and remove the `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS` parameter so the firebase will use your credentials saved by `firebase login`.
diff --git a/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/finally.sh b/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/finally.sh
index 2f4d95d84d3a..7e1002c9a7db 100644
--- a/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/finally.sh
+++ b/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/finally.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ set -eux
 
 func="$(cat func-tmp.txt)"
 
-pnpm firebase functions:log --only "$func"
+GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="./privateKey.json" pnpm firebase functions:log --only "$func"
 
 echo "full logs: https://console.firebase.google.com/project/prisma-e2e-tests-265911/functions/logs?functionFilter=$func(us-central1)&search=&severity=DEBUG"
 echo "project name: prisma-e2e-tests-265 911"
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ echo "project name: prisma-e2e-tests-265 911"
 if [ "$TEST_EXIT_CODE" -eq "0" ]; then
     # If tests passed
 
-    pnpm firebase functions:delete --force "$func"
+    GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="./privateKey.json" pnpm firebase functions:delete --force "$func"
 
 fi
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/run.sh b/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/run.sh
index 5f0b286aece4..5509fbd28d43 100644
--- a/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/run.sh
+++ b/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/run.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ pnpm install
 
 func="e2e_firebase_test_$(date "+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S")" # note weird naming here
 echo "$func" > func-tmp.txt
+echo "$FIREBASE_PRIVATE_KEY" > "./privateKey.json"
 
 # When PRISMA_CLIENT_ENGINE_TYPE is set to `binary`, overwrite existing schema file with one that sets the engineType to 'binary'
 if [ "$PRISMA_CLIENT_ENGINE_TYPE" == "binary" ]; then
@@ -18,6 +19,6 @@ fi
 
 cd functions/ && sh prepare_in_project.sh "$func" && cd ..
 
-pnpm firebase functions:config:set prisma.db="$DATABASE_URL"
+GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="./privateKey.json" pnpm firebase functions:config:set prisma.db="$DATABASE_URL"
 
-pnpm firebase deploy --token "$FIREBASE_TOKEN" --only "functions:$func"
+GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="./privateKey.json" pnpm firebase deploy --only "functions:$func"
diff --git a/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/test.sh b/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/test.sh
index 7916a817a871..2558381774fb 100644
--- a/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/test.sh
+++ b/platforms-serverless/firebase-functions/test.sh
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ fi
 expected='{"version":"'$prisma_version'","createUser":{"id":"12345","email":"alice@prisma.io","name":"Alice"},"updateUser":{"id":"12345","email":"bob@prisma.io","name":"Bob"},"users":{"id":"12345","email":"bob@prisma.io","name":"Bob"},"deleteManyUsers":{"count":1}'${files}'}'
 actual=$(curl "$url")
 
-# TODO Why is this here?
-pnpm firebase functions:log --only "$func"
-
 if [ "$expected" != "$actual" ]; then
   echo "expected '$expected'"
   echo " but got '$actual'"