diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc/tests/test_otlp_trace_exporter.py b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc/tests/test_otlp_trace_exporter.py
index 89cf7f66391..5c8f0407254 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc/tests/test_otlp_trace_exporter.py
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc/tests/test_otlp_trace_exporter.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 
 from opentelemetry.attributes import BoundedAttributes
 from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.exporter import (
+    _is_backoff_v2,
     _translate_key_values,
 )
 from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import (
@@ -461,7 +462,8 @@ def test_otlp_headers(self, mock_ssl_channel, mock_secure):
     def test_handles_backoff_v2_api(self, mock_sleep, mock_backoff):
         # In backoff ~= 2.0.0 the first value yielded from expo is None.
         def generate_delays(*args, **kwargs):
-            yield None
+            if _is_backoff_v2:
+                yield None
             yield 1
 
         mock_backoff.expo.configure_mock(**{"side_effect": generate_delays})
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/metrics/test_otlp_metrics_exporter.py b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/metrics/test_otlp_metrics_exporter.py
index 99f9ea12d31..45bc0c6faaf 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/metrics/test_otlp_metrics_exporter.py
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/metrics/test_otlp_metrics_exporter.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
     DEFAULT_METRICS_EXPORT_PATH,
     DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
     OTLPMetricExporter,
+    _is_backoff_v2,
 )
 from opentelemetry.sdk.environment_variables import (
     OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_CERTIFICATE,
@@ -281,7 +282,8 @@ def test_serialization(self, mock_post):
     def test_handles_backoff_v2_api(self, mock_sleep, mock_backoff):
         # In backoff ~= 2.0.0 the first value yielded from expo is None.
         def generate_delays(*args, **kwargs):
-            yield None
+            if _is_backoff_v2:
+                yield None
             yield 1
 
         mock_backoff.expo.configure_mock(**{"side_effect": generate_delays})
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/test_proto_log_exporter.py b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/test_proto_log_exporter.py
index 7dcb82030d4..b273a618cf9 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/test_proto_log_exporter.py
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/test_proto_log_exporter.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     DEFAULT_LOGS_EXPORT_PATH,
     DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
     OTLPLogExporter,
+    _is_backoff_v2,
 )
 from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http._log_exporter.encoder import (
     _encode_attributes,
@@ -166,7 +167,8 @@ def test_serialize(self):
     def test_handles_backoff_v2_api(self, mock_sleep, mock_backoff):
         # In backoff ~= 2.0.0 the first value yielded from expo is None.
         def generate_delays(*args, **kwargs):
-            yield None
+            if _is_backoff_v2:
+                yield None
             yield 1
 
         mock_backoff.expo.configure_mock(**{"side_effect": generate_delays})
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/test_proto_span_exporter.py b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/test_proto_span_exporter.py
index 73d08e08c8c..64ca6fbbb86 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/test_proto_span_exporter.py
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/tests/test_proto_span_exporter.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
     DEFAULT_TRACES_EXPORT_PATH,
     OTLPSpanExporter,
+    _is_backoff_v2,
 )
 from opentelemetry.sdk.environment_variables import (
     OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_CERTIFICATE,
@@ -203,7 +204,8 @@ def test_headers_parse_from_env(self):
     def test_handles_backoff_v2_api(self, mock_sleep, mock_backoff):
         # In backoff ~= 2.0.0 the first value yielded from expo is None.
         def generate_delays(*args, **kwargs):
-            yield None
+            if _is_backoff_v2:
+                yield None
             yield 1
 
         mock_backoff.expo.configure_mock(**{"side_effect": generate_delays})