I'm using kotlin collections library (listOf, first, toList, etc,..) methods in our AndroidTest package to run UI tests using AndroidJunit4 runner and I'm coming across these type of errors wherever I refer to kotlin collections library.
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No static method listOf(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/util/List; in class Lk/v/i; or its super classes (declaration of 'k.v.i' appears 
The strange thing is I don't see any issues in Compile time nor when I run tests independently at the class level. The issue happens only when I run the whole test suite using Gradle
This is the command I use to run the UI test suite using Gradle
./gradlew connectedCheck --info --full-stacktrace --no-build-cache --debug
What I'm suspecting is the classes that get loaded during runtime seems to be different from compile time
Here's the build.gradle dependencies
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.3.71"
    //  Instrumented Tests
    testImplementation "androidx.test:core:1.2.0"
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.1' 
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit-ktx:1.1.1'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.uiautomator:uiautomator:2.2.0' 
    
  defaultConfig {
    testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
  }