diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-xpu-test.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-xpu-test.sh
index 1e72c2931..a39bc3f17 100644
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-xpu-test.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-xpu-test.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ docker run \
     bash -c '
     set -e
     echo $ZE_AFFINITY_MASK
-    pip install tblib==3.1.0
     python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager
     python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 -O3 -cc.cudagraph_mode=NONE
     python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2 --distributed-executor-backend ray
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.xpu b/docker/Dockerfile.xpu
index 3ed6de8fc..d4c98bf74 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.xpu
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.xpu
@@ -76,19 +76,22 @@ ENV UV_LINK_MODE="copy"
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
     --mount=type=bind,src=requirements/common.txt,target=/workspace/vllm/requirements/common.txt \
     --mount=type=bind,src=requirements/xpu.txt,target=/workspace/vllm/requirements/xpu.txt \
+    --mount=type=bind,src=requirements/xpu-test.in,target=/workspace/vllm/requirements/xpu-test.in \
     uv pip install --upgrade pip && \
-    uv pip install -r requirements/xpu.txt
-
- # used for suffix method speculative decoding
- # build deps for proto + nanobind-based extensions to set up the build environment
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
-    uv pip install grpcio-tools protobuf nanobind
- # arctic-inference is built from source which needs torch-xpu properly installed first
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
+    uv pip install -r requirements/xpu.txt && \
+    uv pip compile /workspace/vllm/requirements/xpu-test.in \
+        -o /workspace/vllm/requirements/xpu-test.txt \
+        -c /workspace/vllm/requirements/xpu.txt \
+        --index-strategy unsafe-best-match \
+        --extra-index-url ${PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL} \
+        --python-version ${PYTHON_VERSION} && \
+    uv pip install grpcio-tools protobuf nanobind && \
     source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh --force && \
     source /opt/intel/oneapi/ccl/2021.15/env/vars.sh --force && \
-    export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$(python -c 'import site; print(site.getsitepackages()[0])'):${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH}" && \
-    uv pip install --no-build-isolation arctic-inference==0.1.1
+    export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$(python3 -c 'import site; print(site.getsitepackages()[0])'):${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH}" && \
+    uv pip install --no-build-isolation -r /workspace/vllm/requirements/xpu-test.txt
+
+
 
 ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib/"
 
diff --git a/requirements/xpu-test.in b/requirements/xpu-test.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0b2273d88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/xpu-test.in
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# --- Test Infrastructure ---
+tblib
+pytest-timeout
+pytest-cov
+pytest-forked
+pytest-rerunfailures
+pytest-shard
+
+# --- Core Tools & Bindings ---
+absl-py
+arctic-inference
+
+# --- Audio Processing ---
+librosa
+audioread
+soxr
+pooch
+soundfile
+
+# --- Tool Parsing & Evaluation ---
+blobfile
+rapidfuzz
+gpt-oss
+schemathesis
+jiwer
+bm25s
+pystemmer
+mteb[bm25s]
+num2words
+pqdm
+
+# --- Vision & Multimodal ---
+timm
+albumentations
+mistral-common[image,audio]
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diff --git a/requirements/xpu-test.txt b/requirements/xpu-test.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2a9a0e06a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/xpu-test.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# XPU Test Dependencies
+# NOTE: Base image already has common.txt + xpu.txt installed,
+#       and vllm-openai stage has pytest, pytest-asyncio, lm-eval[api].
+#       This file only adds incremental test-specific packages.
+
+# Additional test infrastructure (pytest/pytest-asyncio already in base)
+# This file was autogenerated by uv via the following command:
+#    uv pip compile /workspace/vllm/requirements/xpu-test.in -o /workspace/vllm/requirements/xpu-test.txt -c /workspace/vllm/requirements/xpu.txt --index-strategy unsafe-best-match --extra-index-url ${PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL} --python-version ${PYTHON_VERSION} 
+tblib==3.1.0
+pytest-timeout==2.3.1
+pytest-cov==6.3.0
+pytest-forked==1.6.0
+pytest-rerunfailures==14.0
+pytest-shard==0.1.2
+
+arctic-inference==0.1.1
+
+# Required for audio processing tests
+librosa==0.10.2.post1
+audioread==3.0.1
+soxr==0.5.0.post1
+pooch==1.8.2
+soundfile==0.13.1
+
+# Required for Mistral's streaming tool parser
+blobfile==3.0.0
+rapidfuzz==3.12.1
+
+# Required for Mistral's streaming tool parser and some evaluation scripts
+gpt-oss==0.0.8
+schemathesis==3.39.15
+jiwer==4.0.0
+bm25s==0.2.13
+pystemmer==3.0.0
+mteb[bm25s]>=2, <3
+num2words==0.5.14
+pqdm==0.2.0
+
+# Required for some evaluation scripts
+timm==1.0.17
+albumentations==1.4.6
+mistral-common[image,audio]==1.9.1
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