diff --git a/lib/spec.js b/lib/spec.js
index 031bc65..eb5b037 100644
--- a/lib/spec.js
+++ b/lib/spec.js
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ export default class Spec {
         let customCookies = additionalOptions.cookies || {};
 
         return Object.assign({}, defaultCookies, customCookies);
-    }    
+    }
 
     addAdditionalRequestOptions(reqOptions) {
         const supportedOptions = ['followRedirect', 'followAllRedirects', 'followOriginalHttpMethod', 'encoding', 'gzip'];
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ export default class Spec {
 
     buildRequestBody(additionalOptions, headers, method) {
         let bodyData = {};
-        let requestContentType = headers['content-type'];
+        let requestContentType = headers['content-type'] || this.suite.commonHeaders['content-type'];
         let RequestBodyNotFoundError = customError('RequestBodyNotFoundError');
         let InvalidRequestSpecificationError = customError('InvalidRequestSpecificationError');
         let InvalidRequestHeaderError = customError('InvalidRequestHeaderError');
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ export default class Spec {
         }
 
         return true;
-    }    
+    }
 
     _validateJSONData(response, jsonData) {
         let jsonBody;
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ export default class Spec {
                 if (values[0] !== eachJsonData.value) {
                     throw new ResponseJSONDataMismatchError(`JSON path evaluated value did not match with expected Boolean value, json path: ${eachJsonData.path}, Actual value: ${values[0]}, Expected value: ${eachJsonData.value}`);
                 }
-            } 
+            }
             else {
                 throw new Error(`Unknown json data value type, only Array, Object, RegExp, Number, Boolean & String are allowed`);
             }
@@ -827,4 +827,4 @@ export default class Spec {
     }
 
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/test/cli/headers.spec.js b/test/cli/headers.spec.js
index d7357a6..3fc9a91 100644
--- a/test/cli/headers.spec.js
+++ b/test/cli/headers.spec.js
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ describe('headers', function () {
         expect(reportData.passedSuitesCount).to.equal(0);
         expect(reportData.skippedSuitesCount).to.equal(0);
         expect(reportData.failedSuitesCount).to.equal(1);
-        expect(reportData.passedTestsCount).to.equal(7);
+        expect(reportData.passedTestsCount).to.equal(8);
         expect(reportData.skippedTestsCount).to.equal(0);
         expect(reportData.failedTestsCount).to.equal(2);
         expect(reportData.suites.length).to.equal(1);
@@ -92,4 +92,4 @@ describe('headers', function () {
         expect(test.error).to.be.a('null');
     });
 
-});
\ No newline at end of file
+});
diff --git a/test/cli/src/suites/headers.suite.yaml b/test/cli/src/suites/headers.suite.yaml
index 428a8a3..babd721 100644
--- a/test/cli/src/suites/headers.suite.yaml
+++ b/test/cli/src/suites/headers.suite.yaml
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ configuration:
   common_headers:
     - name: customsuiteheader
       value: custom-suite-header-value
+    - name: content-type
+      value: application/json
 specs:
   - name: add suite headers to request headers
     request:
@@ -114,4 +116,15 @@ specs:
     response:
       json_data:
         - path: "$.header1"
-          value: "header2-value"
\ No newline at end of file
+          value: "header2-value"
+  - name: uses suite-level content-type header
+    request:
+      path: /echoJSONBodyResponse
+      method: post
+      payload:
+          body:
+              type: json
+              content:
+                  name: Kiran
+    response:
+        status_code: 200