diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/pyproject.toml b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/pyproject.toml
index 6072def4bb..8d18ed5f56 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/pyproject.toml
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,9 +30,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "requests ~= 2.7",
 ]
 
-[project.optional-dependencies]
-test = []
-
 [project.entry-points.opentelemetry_traces_exporter]
 zipkin_json = "opentelemetry.exporter.zipkin.json:ZipkinExporter"
 
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/test-requirements.txt b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0625946182
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+asgiref==3.7.2
+attrs==23.2.0
+certifi==2024.2.2
+charset-normalizer==3.3.2
+Deprecated==1.2.14
+flaky==3.7.0
+idna==3.6
+importlib-metadata==6.11.0
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+packaging==23.2
+pluggy==1.4.0
+py==1.11.0
+py-cpuinfo==9.0.0
+pytest==7.1.3
+pytest-benchmark==4.0.0
+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 opentelemetry-api
+-e opentelemetry-sdk
+-e opentelemetry-semantic-conventions
+-e exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index b0c1c7eb03..df19ab7a1a 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ commands_pre =
 
   exporter-zipkin-proto-http: pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-proto-http/test-requirements.txt
 
-  exporter-zipkin-json: pip install {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json
+  exporter-zipkin-json: pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/test-requirements.txt
 
   propagator-b3: pip install -r {toxinidir}/propagator/opentelemetry-propagator-b3/test-requirements.txt
 
@@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ commands_pre =
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/test-requirements-1.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/test-requirements.txt
-  python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-proto-http/test-requirements.txt
+  pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/test-requirements.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/propagator/opentelemetry-propagator-b3/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/propagator/opentelemetry-propagator-jaeger/test-requirements.txt