diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/pyproject.toml b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/pyproject.toml
index a6dea9a9de..b0006a0682 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/pyproject.toml
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "python-snappy ~= 0.6",
 ]
 
-[project.optional-dependencies]
-test = []
-
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/tree/main/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write"
 
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/test-requirements.txt b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96877ead8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+asgiref==3.7.2
+attrs==23.2.0
+certifi==2024.2.2
+charset-normalizer==3.3.2
+cramjam==2.8.1
+Deprecated==1.2.14
+idna==3.6
+importlib-metadata==6.11.0
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+packaging==23.2
+pluggy==1.4.0
+protobuf==4.25.3
+py==1.11.0
+py-cpuinfo==9.0.0
+pytest==7.1.3
+pytest-benchmark==4.0.0
+python-snappy==0.7.1
+requests==2.31.0
+tomli==2.0.1
+typing_extensions==4.10.0
+urllib3==2.2.1
+wrapt==1.16.0
+zipp==3.17.0
+-e ../../../exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 820ac93816..8b74061824 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ commands_pre =
 
   richconsole: pip install flaky {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-richconsole[test]
 
-  prometheus: pip install {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write[test]
+  prometheus: pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/test-requirements.txt
 
   sklearn: pip install {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sklearn[test]