(7.2.z) Domain test failures on IBM8 - IllegalStateException: The LogManager was not properly installed

wildfly/testsuite]$ mvn test -DtestLogToFile=false -pl domain -Dts.domain -Dtest=ReadEnvironmentVariablesTestCase,DeploymentOverlayTestCase
...
[ERROR] Errors: 
[ERROR]   DeploymentOverlayTestCase.testDeploymentOverlayInDomainMode:300->performHttpCall:340 » NoClassDefFound
[ERROR]   ReadEnvironmentVariablesTestCase.testReadEnvironmentVariablesForServers:109->getEnvironmentVariables:148 » ExceptionInInitializer
[INFO] 
[ERROR] Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 2, Skipped: 0

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at java.lang.J9VMInternals.ensureError(J9VMInternals.java:146)
	at java.lang.J9VMInternals.recordInitializationFailure(J9VMInternals.java:135)
	at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getFactory(LogFactory.java:316)
	at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:329)
	at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.DefaultHostnameVerifier.<init>(DefaultHostnameVerifier.java:72)
	at org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder.build(HttpClientBuilder.java:955)
	at org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients.createDefault(HttpClients.java:58)
	at org.jboss.as.test.integration.domain.suites.ReadEnvironmentVariablesTestCase.getEnvironmentVariables(ReadEnvironmentVariablesTestCase.java:148)
	at org.jboss.as.test.integration.domain.suites.ReadEnvironmentVariablesTestCase.testReadEnvironmentVariablesForServers(ReadEnvironmentVariablesTestCase.java:109)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:90)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:508)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:50)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:325)
	at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:78)
	at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:57)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:26)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:27)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
	at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:128)
	at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:27)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:55)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreWrapper.createRequestAndRun(JUnitCoreWrapper.java:137)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreWrapper.executeEager(JUnitCoreWrapper.java:107)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreWrapper.execute(JUnitCoreWrapper.java:83)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreWrapper.execute(JUnitCoreWrapper.java:75)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreProvider.invoke(JUnitCoreProvider.java:158)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.invokeProviderInSameClassLoader(ForkedBooter.java:379)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:340)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.execute(ForkedBooter.java:125)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:413)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The LogManager was not properly installed (you must set the "java.util.logging.manager" system property to "org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager")
	at org.jboss.logmanager.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:57)
	at org.apache.commons.logging.JBossLogFactory.<init>(JBossLogFactory.java:48)
	at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory$Holder.<clinit>(LogFactory.java:42)
	... 44 more

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.5.3 (3383c37e1f9e9b3bc3df5050c29c8aff9f295297; 2018-02-24T19:49:05Z)
Maven home: /qa/tools/opt/maven3-latest
Java version: 1.8.0_171, vendor: IBM Corporation
Java home: /qa/tools/opt/x86_64/ibm-java-x86_64-sdk-8.0-5.15/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
---
$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_171"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.5.15 - pxa6480sr5fp15-20180502_01(SR5 FP15))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.9, JRE 1.8.0 Linux amd64-64 Compressed References 20180425_385365 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
OpenJ9   - a7ffbfe
OMR      - a531219
IBM      - 59ef3dc)
JCL - 20180425_01 based on Oracle jdk8u171-b11