JDBC Request step failing from maven

see the error:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.oracle.jdbc.Driver

<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 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.xxx.dsd</groupId>
<artifactId>eAPI-Tests</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>eAPI-Test</name>
<description>A project to test eAPIS</description>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.smartbear.soapui</groupId>
<artifactId>soapui-pro-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>5.1.1</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc</artifactId>
<version>11.1.0.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.reflections</groupId>
<artifactId>reflections</artifactId>
<version>0.9.9-RC1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
<version>3.10-FINAL</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<configuration>
<tool>wsi,axis1,axis2</tool>
<projectFile>src/test/resources</projectFile>
<junitReport>true</junitReport>
<outputFolder>target/reports</outputFolder>
<testSuite>SureSwipeTSuite</testSuite>
<settingsFile>eAPI-Tests/soapui-settings.xml</settingsFile>

</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Thsis is my POM and it seems to fail eventhough I  gave the ODBC jar as a plugin dependency and the jar is downlaoded . I also checked the jar file has the required class.