diff --git a/contributor/verifying-release.md b/contributor/verifying-release.md
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--- a/contributor/verifying-release.md
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@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ versions for details on building against different Hadoop versions, or its relea
     - Use `mvn -Dhadoop.profile=2 verify` to run the tests against the Hadoop 2 profile (not
       applicable to all versions)
 
+The test file ScanConsistencyIT is a standalone-capable IT, and can be run as a test or from main.
+Additional test commands are available for release testing when the test jar is placed on the classpath. 
+This gives users access to some utilities to use for manual testing: TestIngest, TestMultiTableIngest,
+VerifyIngest, TestRandomDeletes.
+
 ### Cluster based
 
 The following tests require a Hadoop cluster running a minimum of HDFS, MapReduce, and ZooKeeper.