diff --git a/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py b/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py
index 65d292e62..66fd846b1 100644
--- a/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py
+++ b/tests/app/main/views/test_send.py
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ def test_go_to_dashboard_after_tour(
         mock_delete_service_template.assert_called_once_with(fake_uuid, fake_uuid)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('num_requested,msg', [
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('num_requested,expected_msg', [
     (0, '‘valid.csv’ contains 100 phone numbers.'),
     (1, 'You can still send 49 messages today, but ‘valid.csv’ contains 100 phone numbers.')
 ], ids=['none_sent', 'some_sent'])
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ def test_check_messages_shows_too_many_messages_errors(
     mock_has_permissions,
     fake_uuid,
     num_requested,
-    msg
+    expected_msg
 ):
     # csv with 100 phone numbers
     mocker.patch('app.main.views.send.s3download', return_value=',\n'.join(
@@ -726,4 +726,4 @@ def test_check_messages_shows_too_many_messages_errors(
     # remove excess whitespace from element
     details = page.find('div', class_='banner-dangerous').findAll('p')[1]
     details = ' '.join([line.strip() for line in details.text.split('\n') if line.strip() != ''])
-    assert details == msg
+    assert details == expected_msg
diff --git a/tests/app/notify_client/test_service_api_client.py b/tests/app/notify_client/test_service_api_client.py
index 125980b46..57557936e 100644
--- a/tests/app/notify_client/test_service_api_client.py
+++ b/tests/app/notify_client/test_service_api_client.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def test_client_posts_archived_true_when_deleting_template(mocker):
 )
 def test_client_gets_service(mocker, function, params):
     client = ServiceAPIClient()
-    mock_post = mocker.patch.object(client, 'get')
+    mock_get = mocker.patch.object(client, 'get')
 
     function(client, 'foo')
-    mock_post.assert_called_once_with('/service/foo', params=params)
+    mock_get.assert_called_once_with('/service/foo', params=params)