diff --git a/cmake_targets/autotests/run_exec_lte-softmodem_tests.py b/cmake_targets/autotests/run_exec_lte-softmodem_tests.py
index cd0441ef7bbce8e3d4a3e6e8c441d4a4b28fd893..ad408341b541aa254aa4a8ac42abebc1d2245a7a 100755
--- a/cmake_targets/autotests/run_exec_lte-softmodem_tests.py
+++ b/cmake_targets/autotests/run_exec_lte-softmodem_tests.py
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ sys.path.append('/opt/ssh')
 
 import ssh
 from ssh import SSHSession
+import argparse
 
 # \brief write a string to a file
 # \param filename name of file