diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 7092388b..5df92704 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
           source venv/bin/activate
-          nose2 -v
+          pytest -vv
 
   integration-test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d6b01dbf..3aeeb1fb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ pip-log.txt
 # Unit test / coverage reports
 .coverage
 .tox
-nosetests.xml
 
 #Misc
 .cache/
diff --git a/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv b/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv
index e15ac6e5..a6692772 100644
--- a/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv
+++ b/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Component,Origin,License,Copyright
 flake8,gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8,MIT,"Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Tarek Ziade <tarek@ziade.org>. Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com>."
-nose2,github.com/nose-devs/nose2,BSD-2-Clause,"Copyright (c) 2012, Jason Pellerin. All rights reserved."
-wrapt,github.com/GrahamDumpleton/wrapt,BSD-2-Clause,"Copyright (c) 2013-2019, Graham Dumpleton"
\ No newline at end of file
+wrapt,github.com/GrahamDumpleton/wrapt,BSD-2-Clause,"Copyright (c) 2013-2019, Graham Dumpleton"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 82685b98..5dbd9e5b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,16 +36,16 @@ importlib_metadata = {version = "*", python = "<3.8"}
 boto3 = { version = "^1.28.0", optional = true }
 typing_extensions = {version = "^4.0", python = "<3.8"}
 requests = { version ="^2.22.0", optional = true }
-nose2 = { version= "^0.9.1", optional = true }
+pytest = { version= "^8.0.0", optional = true }
 flake8 = { version = "^5.0.4", optional = true }
 
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]
 dev = [
     "boto3",
-    "requests",
-    "nose2",
     "flake8",
+    "pytest",
+    "requests",
 ]
 
 [build-system]
diff --git a/scripts/run_tests.sh b/scripts/run_tests.sh
index e06e9912..540ac898 100755
--- a/scripts/run_tests.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_tests.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ do
         --build-arg python_version=$python_version
     docker run -w /test \
         datadog-lambda-python-test:$python_version \
-        nose2 -v
+        pytest -vv
     docker run -w /test \
         datadog-lambda-python-test:$python_version \
         flake8 datadog_lambda/