diff --git a/plugin/trino-google-sheets/pom.xml b/plugin/trino-google-sheets/pom.xml
index 7c61bbb6e165..9aa00b3ced2f 100644
--- a/plugin/trino-google-sheets/pom.xml
+++ b/plugin/trino-google-sheets/pom.xml
@@ -119,6 +119,13 @@
             <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
+        <!-- used by tests but also needed transitively -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.airlift</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log-manager</artifactId>
+            <scope>runtime</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
         <!-- Trino SPI -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.trino</groupId>
diff --git a/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/SheetsQueryRunner.java b/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/SheetsQueryRunner.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e1eb229423fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/SheetsQueryRunner.java
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed 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.
+ */
+package io.trino.plugin.google.sheets;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import io.airlift.log.Logger;
+import io.airlift.log.Logging;
+import io.trino.Session;
+import io.trino.testing.DistributedQueryRunner;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import static io.airlift.testing.Closeables.closeAllSuppress;
+import static io.trino.plugin.google.sheets.TestSheetsPlugin.TEST_METADATA_SHEET_ID;
+import static io.trino.plugin.google.sheets.TestSheetsPlugin.getTestCredentialsPath;
+import static io.trino.testing.TestingSession.testSessionBuilder;
+
+public class SheetsQueryRunner
+{
+    protected static final String GOOGLE_SHEETS = "gsheets";
+
+    private SheetsQueryRunner() {}
+
+    public static DistributedQueryRunner createSheetsQueryRunner(
+            Map<String, String> extraProperties,
+            Map<String, String> connectorProperties)
+            throws Exception
+    {
+        DistributedQueryRunner queryRunner = DistributedQueryRunner.builder(createSession())
+                .setExtraProperties(extraProperties)
+                .build();
+        try {
+            connectorProperties = new HashMap<>(ImmutableMap.copyOf(connectorProperties));
+            connectorProperties.putIfAbsent("credentials-path", getTestCredentialsPath());
+            connectorProperties.putIfAbsent("metadata-sheet-id", TEST_METADATA_SHEET_ID);
+            connectorProperties.putIfAbsent("sheets-data-max-cache-size", "1000");
+            connectorProperties.putIfAbsent("sheets-data-expire-after-write", "5m");
+
+            queryRunner.installPlugin(new SheetsPlugin());
+            queryRunner.createCatalog(GOOGLE_SHEETS, GOOGLE_SHEETS, connectorProperties);
+
+            return queryRunner;
+        }
+        catch (Throwable e) {
+            closeAllSuppress(e, queryRunner);
+            throw e;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static Session createSession()
+    {
+        return testSessionBuilder()
+                .setCatalog(GOOGLE_SHEETS)
+                .setSchema("default")
+                .build();
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args)
+            throws Exception
+    {
+        Logging.initialize();
+
+        DistributedQueryRunner queryRunner = createSheetsQueryRunner(
+                ImmutableMap.of("http-server.http.port", "8080"),
+                ImmutableMap.of());
+
+        Logger log = Logger.get(SheetsQueryRunner.class);
+        log.info("======== SERVER STARTED ========");
+        log.info("\n====\n%s\n====", queryRunner.getCoordinator().getBaseUrl());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/TestGoogleSheets.java b/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/TestGoogleSheets.java
index 271df63d3786..0b2f2046ae17 100644
--- a/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/TestGoogleSheets.java
+++ b/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/TestGoogleSheets.java
@@ -14,48 +14,21 @@
 package io.trino.plugin.google.sheets;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
-import io.trino.Session;
 import io.trino.testing.AbstractTestQueryFramework;
-import io.trino.testing.DistributedQueryRunner;
 import io.trino.testing.QueryRunner;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 
-import static io.trino.plugin.google.sheets.TestSheetsPlugin.TEST_METADATA_SHEET_ID;
-import static io.trino.plugin.google.sheets.TestSheetsPlugin.getTestCredentialsPath;
-import static io.trino.testing.TestingSession.testSessionBuilder;
+import static io.trino.plugin.google.sheets.SheetsQueryRunner.createSheetsQueryRunner;
 import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 public class TestGoogleSheets
         extends AbstractTestQueryFramework
 {
-    protected static final String GOOGLE_SHEETS = "gsheets";
-
-    private static Session createSession()
-    {
-        return testSessionBuilder()
-                .setCatalog(GOOGLE_SHEETS)
-                .setSchema("default")
-                .build();
-    }
-
     @Override
     protected QueryRunner createQueryRunner()
+            throws Exception
     {
-        QueryRunner queryRunner;
-        try {
-            SheetsPlugin sheetsPlugin = new SheetsPlugin();
-            queryRunner = DistributedQueryRunner.builder(createSession()).build();
-            queryRunner.installPlugin(sheetsPlugin);
-            queryRunner.createCatalog(GOOGLE_SHEETS, GOOGLE_SHEETS, ImmutableMap.of(
-                    "credentials-path", getTestCredentialsPath(),
-                    "metadata-sheet-id", TEST_METADATA_SHEET_ID,
-                    "sheets-data-max-cache-size", "1000",
-                    "sheets-data-expire-after-write", "5m"));
-        }
-        catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException(e.getMessage());
-        }
-        return queryRunner;
+        return createSheetsQueryRunner(ImmutableMap.of(), ImmutableMap.of());
     }
 
     @Test
diff --git a/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/TestSheetsPlugin.java b/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/TestSheetsPlugin.java
index 37f286bd3a0e..2448216a5e6e 100644
--- a/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/TestSheetsPlugin.java
+++ b/plugin/trino-google-sheets/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/google/sheets/TestSheetsPlugin.java
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 import java.util.Base64;
 
 import static com.google.common.collect.Iterables.getOnlyElement;
-import static io.trino.plugin.google.sheets.TestGoogleSheets.GOOGLE_SHEETS;
+import static io.trino.plugin.google.sheets.SheetsQueryRunner.GOOGLE_SHEETS;
 import static java.io.File.createTempFile;
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.testng.Assert.assertNotNull;