diff --git a/tools/internal_ci/helper_scripts/prepare_build_interop_rc b/tools/internal_ci/helper_scripts/prepare_build_interop_rc
index cc956b8075241a42af1b0e4d9e437e8fd0f2ae18..859ce621f97b9fd6cc21138aee324ad1c34b62ac 100644
--- a/tools/internal_ci/helper_scripts/prepare_build_interop_rc
+++ b/tools/internal_ci/helper_scripts/prepare_build_interop_rc
@@ -26,3 +26,8 @@ git submodule update --init
 # Set up gRPC-Go and gRPC-Java to test
 git clone --recursive https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go ./../grpc-go
 git clone --recursive https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java ./../grpc-java
+
+# Download json file.
+mkdir ~/service_account
+gsutil cp gs://grpc-testing-secrets/interop/service_account/GrpcTesting-726eb1347f15.json ~/service_account
+export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=~/service_account/GrpcTesting-726eb1347f15.json