diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-test/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/opentelemetry/OpenTelemetryVersionIT.java b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-test/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/opentelemetry/OpenTelemetryVersionIT.java
index 7dc9ec7d6f..0081f65c9b 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-test/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/opentelemetry/OpenTelemetryVersionIT.java
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-opentelemetry/apm-opentelemetry-test/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/opentelemetry/OpenTelemetryVersionIT.java
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ void testUserProvidedMetricsSdkVersion(String version, String semConvDep) throws
         List<String> dependencies = List.of(
             "io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api:" + version,
             "io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-sdk-metrics:" + version,
+            "io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-extension-incubator:" + version+"-alpha",
             "io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-sdk-common:" + version,
             "io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-context:" + version,
             semConvDep);