diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/LatencyBasedConfiguration.test.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/LatencyBasedConfiguration.test.tsx
index 0176be5ab40..39d9f8c881c 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/LatencyBasedConfiguration.test.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/LatencyBasedConfiguration.test.tsx
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ describe("LatencyBasedConfiguration", () => {
     const args = { ttl: { nested: true } };
     render(<LatencyBasedConfiguration routingStrategyArgs={args} />);
     // HTML input type=text strips newlines, so check that the key/value appears
-    const input = document.querySelector('input[name="ttl"]') as HTMLInputElement;
-    expect(input).not.toBeNull();
+    const input = screen.getByRole("textbox", { name: /ttl/i }) as HTMLInputElement;
     expect(input.value).toContain('"nested"');
     expect(input.value).toContain('true');
   });
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/ReliabilityRetriesSection.test.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/ReliabilityRetriesSection.test.tsx
index 0892d39fc29..101b09af0dc 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/ReliabilityRetriesSection.test.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/ReliabilityRetriesSection.test.tsx
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ describe("ReliabilityRetriesSection", () => {
     const settings = { retry_policy: { "rate-limited": 2 } };
     render(<ReliabilityRetriesSection routerSettings={settings} routerFieldsMetadata={{}} />);
     // HTML input type=text strips newlines, so check that the key/value appears
-    const input = document.querySelector('input[name="retry_policy"]') as HTMLInputElement;
-    expect(input).not.toBeNull();
+    const input = screen.getByRole("textbox", { name: /retry_policy/i }) as HTMLInputElement;
     expect(input.value).toContain('"rate-limited"');
     expect(input.value).toContain('2');
   });
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/RouterSettingsForm.test.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/RouterSettingsForm.test.tsx
index 767820cd485..01f318b909a 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/RouterSettingsForm.test.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/RouterSettingsForm.test.tsx
@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ describe("RouterSettingsForm", () => {
     expect(screen.getByText("Latency-Based Configuration")).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
-  it("should call onChange with the updated strategy when the selector changes", () => {
+  it("should call onChange with the updated strategy when the selector changes", async () => {
     const onChange = vi.fn();
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
     const props = {
       ...baseProps,
       onChange,
@@ -106,9 +107,7 @@ describe("RouterSettingsForm", () => {
     };
     render(<RouterSettingsForm {...props} />);
 
-    const select = screen.getByTestId("strategy-select") as HTMLSelectElement;
-    select.value = "latency-based-routing";
-    select.dispatchEvent(new Event("change", { bubbles: true }));
+    await user.selectOptions(screen.getByTestId("strategy-select"), "latency-based-routing");
 
     expect(onChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
       expect.objectContaining({ selectedStrategy: "latency-based-routing" })
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/RoutingStrategySelector.test.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/RoutingStrategySelector.test.tsx
index 85b1dc21acf..01f839681f1 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/RoutingStrategySelector.test.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/router_settings/RoutingStrategySelector.test.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
 import { render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import userEvent from "@testing-library/user-event";
 import RoutingStrategySelector from "./RoutingStrategySelector";
 
 // Ant Design's Select is complex to drive in JSDOM; swap it for a plain
@@ -77,21 +78,16 @@ describe("RoutingStrategySelector", () => {
 
   it("should not render a description for a strategy that has none", () => {
     render(<RoutingStrategySelector {...baseProps} />);
-    // "least-busy" has no entry in routingStrategyDescriptions
-    const select = screen.getByTestId("strategy-select");
-    const leastBusyOption = Array.from(select.querySelectorAll("option")).find(
-      (o) => o.value === "least-busy"
-    );
-    expect(leastBusyOption).toBeInTheDocument();
+    // "least-busy" has no entry in routingStrategyDescriptions — it still renders without crashing
+    expect(screen.getByText("least-busy")).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
-  it("should call onStrategyChange with the selected strategy value", () => {
+  it("should call onStrategyChange with the selected strategy value", async () => {
     const onStrategyChange = vi.fn();
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
     render(<RoutingStrategySelector {...baseProps} onStrategyChange={onStrategyChange} />);
 
-    const select = screen.getByTestId("strategy-select") as HTMLSelectElement;
-    select.value = "latency-based-routing";
-    select.dispatchEvent(new Event("change", { bubbles: true }));
+    await user.selectOptions(screen.getByTestId("strategy-select"), "latency-based-routing");
 
     expect(onStrategyChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith("latency-based-routing");
   });