diff --git a/.github/workflows/parquet-variant.yml b/.github/workflows/parquet-variant.yml
index 26cd73ea24e5..df7925aea389 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/parquet-variant.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/parquet-variant.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ on:
       - parquet-variant/**
       - parquet-variant-json/**
       - parquet-variant-compute/**
+      - parquet-variant-integration-testing/**
       - .github/**
 
 jobs:
@@ -54,6 +55,8 @@ jobs:
         run: cargo test -p parquet-variant-json
       - name: Test parquet-variant-compute
         run: cargo test -p parquet-variant-compute
+      - name: Test parquet-variant-compute
+        run: cargo test -p parquet-variant-integration-testing
 
   # test compilation
   linux-features:
@@ -91,3 +94,5 @@ jobs:
         run: cargo clippy -p parquet-variant-json --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
       - name: Run clippy (parquet-variant-compute)
         run: cargo clippy -p parquet-variant-compute --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
+      - name: Run clippy (parquet-variant-integration-testing)
+        run: cargo clippy -p parquet-variant-integration-testing --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9d1ad6d03b5e..555e6fcc38d2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ members = [
     "parquet-variant",
     "parquet-variant-compute",
     "parquet-variant-json",
+    "parquet-variant-integration-testing",
     "parquet_derive",
     "parquet_derive_test",
 ]
diff --git a/parquet-variant-integration-testing/Cargo.toml b/parquet-variant-integration-testing/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c3c05f5d8e1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parquet-variant-integration-testing/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+## Tests for combining
+
+[package]
+name = "parquet-variant-integration-testing"
+version = "0.1.0"
+license = { workspace = true }
+description = "Apache Parquet Variant Integration Testing"
+homepage = { workspace = true }
+repository = { workspace = true }
+authors = { workspace = true }
+keywords = ["arrow", "parquet", "variant"]
+edition = { workspace = true }
+rust-version = { workspace = true }
+
+
+[dependencies]
+parquet = { workspace = true, features=["arrow", "async", "experimental"] }
+arrow = { workspace = true }
+
+
diff --git a/parquet/tests/simple_variant_integration.rs b/parquet-variant-integration-testing/tests/variant_integration.rs
similarity index 99%
rename from parquet/tests/simple_variant_integration.rs
rename to parquet-variant-integration-testing/tests/variant_integration.rs
index e379b820f29f..9326a3b51cff 100644
--- a/parquet/tests/simple_variant_integration.rs
+++ b/parquet-variant-integration-testing/tests/variant_integration.rs
@@ -24,10 +24,7 @@
 //! Based on the parquet-testing PR: https://github.com/apache/parquet-testing/pull/90/files
 //! Inspired by the arrow-go implementation: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/455/files
 
-// These tests require the arrow feature
-#![cfg(feature = "arrow")]
-
-use arrow_array::{Array, StructArray};
+use arrow::array::{Array, StructArray};
 use parquet::arrow::arrow_reader::ParquetRecordBatchReaderBuilder;
 use std::{
     env,
@@ -1218,8 +1215,8 @@ fn find_existing_variant_test_data() -> Result<PathBuf, Box<dyn Error>> {
 
     let manifest_dir = env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").unwrap_or_else(|_| ".".to_string());
     let candidates = vec![
-        PathBuf::from(&manifest_dir).join("../parquet-testing/variant"),
-        PathBuf::from(&manifest_dir).join("parquet-testing/variant"),
+        PathBuf::from(&manifest_dir).join("../../../parquet-testing/variant"),
+        PathBuf::from(&manifest_dir).join("../../parquet-testing/variant"),
     ];
 
     for candidate in candidates {