diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/pyproject.toml b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/pyproject.toml
index 5710158de77..100dc0be41b 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/pyproject.toml
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,9 +30,6 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
-test = []
-
-[project.entry-points.opentelemetry_traces_exporter]
 zipkin = "opentelemetry.exporter.zipkin.proto.http:ZipkinExporter"
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/test-requirements.txt b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3383ba7134c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+asgiref==3.7.2
+attrs==23.2.0
+Deprecated==1.2.14
+flaky==3.7.0
+importlib-metadata==6.11.0
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+packaging==24.0
+pluggy==1.4.0
+py==1.11.0
+py-cpuinfo==9.0.0
+pytest==7.1.3
+pytest-benchmark==4.0.0
+tomli==2.0.1
+typing_extensions==4.10.0
+wrapt==1.16.0
+zipp==3.17.0
+-e opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin