diff --git a/kafka-ui-api/pom.xml b/kafka-ui-api/pom.xml
index 1e0f952eb16..056cf2f0745 100644
--- a/kafka-ui-api/pom.xml
+++ b/kafka-ui-api/pom.xml
@@ -50,12 +50,10 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
-            <version>${kafka-clients.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-            <version>3.12.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
@@ -133,7 +131,6 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-pool2</artifactId>
-            <version>${apache.commons.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
@@ -158,25 +155,21 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${mockito.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-junit-jupiter</artifactId>
-            <version>${mockito.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
             <artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
-            <version>${byte-buddy.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
             <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${assertj.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -188,13 +181,11 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockwebserver</artifactId>
-            <version>${okhttp3.mockwebserver.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
             <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
-            <version>${okhttp3.mockwebserver.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
@@ -239,16 +230,15 @@
             <artifactId>spring-security-ldap</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
             <artifactId>groovy-jsr223</artifactId>
-            <version>${groovy.version}</version>
+            <version>3.0.13</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
             <artifactId>groovy-json</artifactId>
-            <version>${groovy.version}</version>
+            <version>3.0.13</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.datasketches</groupId>
@@ -268,7 +258,6 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                 <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <goals>
@@ -309,9 +298,6 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                <configuration>
-                    <argLine>@{argLine} --illegal-access=permit</argLine>
-                </configuration>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
diff --git a/kafka-ui-e2e-checks/pom.xml b/kafka-ui-e2e-checks/pom.xml
index 22c17bf9609..9f1fd74e05d 100644
--- a/kafka-ui-e2e-checks/pom.xml
+++ b/kafka-ui-e2e-checks/pom.xml
@@ -14,25 +14,17 @@
     <properties>
         <maven.surefire-plugin.version>3.0.0-M8</maven.surefire-plugin.version>
         <kafka-ui-contract>${project.version}</kafka-ui-contract>
-        <testcontainers.version>1.17.6</testcontainers.version>
-        <httpcomponents.version>5.2.1</httpcomponents.version>
         <selenium.version>4.8.1</selenium.version>
         <selenide.version>6.12.3</selenide.version>
         <testng.version>7.7.1</testng.version>
         <allure.version>2.23.0</allure.version>
         <qase.io.version>3.0.5</qase.io.version>
-        <aspectj.version>1.9.9.1</aspectj.version>
-        <assertj.version>3.24.2</assertj.version>
-        <hamcrest.version>2.2</hamcrest.version>
-        <slf4j.version>2.0.7</slf4j.version>
-        <kafka.version>3.3.1</kafka.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka_2.13</artifactId>
-            <version>${kafka.version}</version>
             <exclusions> <!-- could be removed when kafka version will contain zookeeper with netty 4.1.69 -->
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
@@ -114,37 +106,30 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>testcontainers</artifactId>
-            <version>${testcontainers.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
             <artifactId>selenium</artifactId>
-            <version>${testcontainers.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
             <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
-            <version>${org.projectlombok.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents.core5</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpcore5</artifactId>
-            <version>${httpcomponents.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents.client5</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpclient5</artifactId>
-            <version>${httpcomponents.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
             <artifactId>selenium-http-jdk-client</artifactId>
-            <version>${selenium.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
             <artifactId>selenium-http</artifactId>
-            <version>${selenium.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.codeborne</groupId>
@@ -179,22 +164,18 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
             <artifactId>hamcrest</artifactId>
-            <version>${hamcrest.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
             <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${assertj.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
             <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
-            <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
-            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.provectus</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index aa02a56f0e9..84d93146f81 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+
+    <parent>
+        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter -->
+        <!-- https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-parent/3.0.0/pom -->
+        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
+        <version>3.1.9</version>
+        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
+    </parent>
+
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <modules>
@@ -21,14 +31,13 @@
         <git.revision>latest</git.revision>
 
         <!-- Dependency versions -->
+        <spring-boot.version>3.1.9</spring-boot.version>
         <antlr4-maven-plugin.version>4.12.0</antlr4-maven-plugin.version>
         <apache.commons.version>2.11.1</apache.commons.version>
-        <assertj.version>3.19.0</assertj.version>
         <avro.version>1.11.1</avro.version>
         <byte-buddy.version>1.12.19</byte-buddy.version>
         <confluent.version>7.4.0</confluent.version>
         <datasketches-java.version>3.1.0</datasketches-java.version>
-        <groovy.version>3.0.13</groovy.version>
         <jackson.version>2.14.0</jackson.version>
         <kafka-clients.version>3.5.0</kafka-clients.version>
         <org.mapstruct.version>1.5.5.Final</org.mapstruct.version>
@@ -36,15 +45,12 @@
         <protobuf-java.version>3.23.3</protobuf-java.version>
         <scala-lang.library.version>2.13.9</scala-lang.library.version>
         <snakeyaml.version>2.0</snakeyaml.version>
-        <spring-boot.version>3.1.3</spring-boot.version>
         <kafka-ui-serde-api.version>1.0.0</kafka-ui-serde-api.version>
         <odd-oddrn-generator.version>0.1.17</odd-oddrn-generator.version>
         <odd-oddrn-client.version>0.1.26</odd-oddrn-client.version>
         <org.json.version>20230227</org.json.version>
 
         <!-- Test dependency versions -->
-        <junit.version>5.9.1</junit.version>
-        <mockito.version>5.3.1</mockito.version>
         <okhttp3.mockwebserver.version>4.10.0</okhttp3.mockwebserver.version>
         <testcontainers.version>1.17.5</testcontainers.version>
 
@@ -100,20 +106,6 @@
 
     <dependencyManagement>
         <dependencies>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-                <artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
-                <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
-                <type>pom</type>
-                <scope>import</scope>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-bom</artifactId>
-                <version>${jackson.version}</version>
-                <type>pom</type>
-                <scope>import</scope>
-            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
                 <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
@@ -129,13 +121,6 @@
                 <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
                 <version>${protobuf-java.version}</version>
             </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.junit</groupId>
-                <artifactId>junit-bom</artifactId>
-                <version>${junit.version}</version>
-                <type>pom</type>
-                <scope>import</scope>
-            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
                 <artifactId>testcontainers-bom</artifactId>