diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2/pyproject.toml
index a300fa9fdd..26873924e4 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2/pyproject.toml
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ dependencies = [
 instruments = [
   "psycopg2 >= 2.7.3.1",
 ]
-test = [
-  "opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2[instruments]",
-  "opentelemetry-test-utils == 0.45b0.dev",
-]
 
 [project.entry-points.opentelemetry_instrumentor]
 psycopg2 = "opentelemetry.instrumentation.psycopg2:Psycopg2Instrumentor"
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2/test-requirements.txt b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ade3b5fd26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+asgiref==3.7.2
+attrs==23.2.0
+Deprecated==1.2.14
+importlib-metadata==6.11.0
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+packaging==23.2
+pluggy==1.4.0
+psycopg2==2.9.9
+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-instrumentation
+-e instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi
+-e instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 7466b54e00..40ddff3f7a 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ commands_pre =
 
   psycopg: pip install {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg[test]
 
-  psycopg2: pip install {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2[test]
+  psycopg2: pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2/test-requirements.txt
 
   pymysql: pip install {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymysql[test]
 
@@ -590,10 +590,10 @@ commands_pre =
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymemcache/test-requirements-4.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-logging/test-requirements.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg[test]
-  python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiohttp-client/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiopg/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiohttp-server/test-requirements.txt
+  pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2/test-requirements.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pyramid/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests/test-requirements.txt