diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index f493c7808..16a6ca8ab 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ my $has_cares;      # set if built with c-ares
 my $has_threadedres;# set if built with threaded resolver
 my $has_psl;        # set if libcurl is built with PSL support
 my $has_ldpreload;  # set if curl is built for systems supporting LD_PRELOAD
+my $has_multissl;   # set if curl is build with MultiSSL support
 
 # this version is decided by the particular nghttp2 library that is being used
 my $h2cver = "h2c";
@@ -2858,6 +2859,10 @@ sub checksystem {
                 # ssl enabled
                 $has_ssl=1;
             }
+            if($feat =~ /MultiSSL/i) {
+                # multiple ssl backends available.
+                $has_multissl=1;
+            }
             if($feat =~ /Largefile/i) {
                 # large file support
                 $has_largefile=1;
@@ -3311,6 +3316,11 @@ sub singletest {
                     next;
                 }
             }
+            elsif($1 eq "MultiSSL") {
+                if($has_multissl) {
+                    next;
+                }
+            }
             elsif($1 eq "SSLpinning") {
                 if($has_sslpinning) {
                     next;
@@ -3479,6 +3489,11 @@ sub singletest {
                         next;
                     }
                 }
+                elsif($1 eq "MultiSSL") {
+                    if(!$has_multissl) {
+                        next;
+                    }
+                }
                 elsif($1 eq "OpenSSL") {
                     if(!$has_openssl) {
                         next;