diff --git a/nixos/tests/spark/default.nix b/nixos/tests/spark/default.nix
index 462f0d23a403..63d6a5d44db8 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/spark/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/spark/default.nix
@@ -1,28 +1,47 @@
-import ../make-test-python.nix ({...}: {
-  name = "spark";
+{ pkgs, ... }:
 
-  nodes = {
-    worker = { nodes, pkgs, ... }: {
-      services.spark.worker = {
-        enable = true;
-        master = "master:7077";
-      };
-      virtualisation.memorySize = 2048;
-    };
-    master = { config, pkgs, ... }: {
-      services.spark.master = {
-        enable = true;
-        bind = "0.0.0.0";
-      };
-      networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 22 7077 8080 ];
-    };
+let
+  inherit (pkgs) lib;
+  tests = {
+    default = testsForPackage { sparkPackage = pkgs.spark; };
   };
 
-  testScript = ''
-    master.wait_for_unit("spark-master.service")
-    worker.wait_for_unit("spark-worker.service")
-    worker.copy_from_host( "${./spark_sample.py}", "/spark_sample.py" )
-    assert "<title>Spark Master at spark://" in worker.succeed("curl -sSfkL http://master:8080/")
-    worker.succeed("spark-submit --master spark://master:7077 --executor-memory 512m --executor-cores 1 /spark_sample.py")
-  '';
-})
+  testsForPackage = args: lib.recurseIntoAttrs {
+    sparkCluster = testSparkCluster args;
+    passthru.override = args': testsForPackage (args // args');
+  };
+  testSparkCluster = { sparkPackage, ... }: pkgs.nixosTest ({
+    name = "spark";
+
+    nodes = {
+      worker = { nodes, pkgs, ... }: {
+        services.spark = {
+          package = sparkPackage;
+          worker = {
+            enable = true;
+            master = "master:7077";
+          };
+        };
+        virtualisation.memorySize = 2048;
+      };
+      master = { config, pkgs, ... }: {
+        services.spark = {
+          package = sparkPackage;
+          master = {
+            enable = true;
+            bind = "0.0.0.0";
+          };
+        };
+        networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 22 7077 8080 ];
+      };
+    };
+
+    testScript = ''
+      master.wait_for_unit("spark-master.service")
+      worker.wait_for_unit("spark-worker.service")
+      worker.copy_from_host( "${./spark_sample.py}", "/spark_sample.py" )
+      assert "<title>Spark Master at spark://" in worker.succeed("curl -sSfkL http://master:8080/")
+      worker.succeed("spark-submit --master spark://master:7077 --executor-memory 512m --executor-cores 1 /spark_sample.py")
+    '';
+  });
+in tests
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/spark/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/spark/default.nix
index 366de1873557..a95db8d005eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/spark/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/spark/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 , hadoop
 , RSupport ? true
 , R
+, nixosTests
 }:
 
 let
@@ -60,6 +61,10 @@ let
         ln -s $out/lib/${untarDir}/lib/spark-assembly-*.jar $out/share/java
       '';
 
+      passthru.tests = nixosTests.spark.default.passthru.override {
+        sparkPackage = finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+      };
+
       meta = {
         description = "Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing";
         homepage = "https://spark.apache.org/";