diff --git a/qa/scripts/deployNode.sh b/qa/scripts/deployNode.sh
index d790d3e12..6455c8ea1 100755
--- a/qa/scripts/deployNode.sh
+++ b/qa/scripts/deployNode.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ function configure_env() {
     chmod 400 gitlab-featurebase-dev.pem
 
     # set up ssh permissions 
-    'which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )'
+    which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )
     eval `ssh-agent -s`
     mkdir -p ~/.ssh
     echo "$AWS_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" | ssh-add -