diff --git a/polkadot/node/core/pvf/common/src/error.rs b/polkadot/node/core/pvf/common/src/error.rs
index 53565b92eb37..384a0781d6dc 100644
--- a/polkadot/node/core/pvf/common/src/error.rs
+++ b/polkadot/node/core/pvf/common/src/error.rs
@@ -76,9 +76,6 @@ pub enum PrepareError {
 	Kernel(String),
 }
 
-/// Pre-encoded length-prefixed `PrepareResult::Err(PrepareError::OutOfMemory)`
-pub const OOM_PAYLOAD: &[u8] = b"\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x08";
-
 impl PrepareError {
 	/// Returns whether this is a deterministic error, i.e. one that should trigger reliably. Those
 	/// errors depend on the PVF itself and the sc-executor/wasmtime logic.
@@ -174,11 +171,3 @@ impl fmt::Display for InternalValidationError {
 		}
 	}
 }
-
-#[test]
-fn pre_encoded_payloads() {
-	let oom_enc = PrepareResult::Err(PrepareError::OutOfMemory).encode();
-	let mut oom_payload = oom_enc.len().to_le_bytes().to_vec();
-	oom_payload.extend(oom_enc);
-	assert_eq!(oom_payload, OOM_PAYLOAD);
-}
diff --git a/polkadot/node/core/pvf/prepare-worker/src/lib.rs b/polkadot/node/core/pvf/prepare-worker/src/lib.rs
index 6b0091f5d9e5..58fc292eb456 100644
--- a/polkadot/node/core/pvf/prepare-worker/src/lib.rs
+++ b/polkadot/node/core/pvf/prepare-worker/src/lib.rs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ use nix::{
 use os_pipe::{self, PipeWriter};
 use parity_scale_codec::{Decode, Encode};
 use polkadot_node_core_pvf_common::{
-	error::{PrepareError, PrepareResult, OOM_PAYLOAD},
+	error::{PrepareError, PrepareResult},
 	executor_intf::create_runtime_from_artifact_bytes,
 	framed_recv_blocking, framed_send_blocking,
 	prepare::{MemoryStats, PrepareJobKind, PrepareStats},
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ fn get_total_cpu_usage(rusage: Usage) -> Duration {
 /// - `pipe_write`: A `os_pipe::PipeWriter` structure, the writing end of a pipe.
 ///
 /// - `response`: Child process response
-fn send_child_response(mut pipe_write: &PipeWriter, response: Result<Response, PrepareError>) -> ! {
+fn send_child_response(mut pipe_write: &PipeWriter, response: JobResponse) -> ! {
 	pipe_write
 		.write_all(response.encode().as_slice())
 		.unwrap_or_else(|_| process::exit(libc::EXIT_FAILURE));
@@ -625,3 +625,17 @@ fn send_child_response(mut pipe_write: &PipeWriter, response: Result<Response, P
 fn error_from_errno(context: &'static str, errno: Errno) -> PrepareError {
 	PrepareError::Kernel(format!("{}: {}: {}", context, errno, io::Error::last_os_error()))
 }
+
+type JobResponse = Result<Response, PrepareError>;
+
+/// Pre-encoded length-prefixed `Result::Err(PrepareError::OutOfMemory)`
+const OOM_PAYLOAD: &[u8] = b"\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x08";
+
+#[test]
+fn pre_encoded_payloads() {
+	// NOTE: This must match the type of `response` in `send_child_response`.
+	let oom_enc: JobResponse = Result::Err(PrepareError::OutOfMemory).encode();
+	let mut oom_payload = oom_enc.len().to_le_bytes().to_vec();
+	oom_payload.extend(oom_enc);
+	assert_eq!(oom_payload, OOM_PAYLOAD);
+}
diff --git a/polkadot/node/core/pvf/tests/it/main.rs b/polkadot/node/core/pvf/tests/it/main.rs
index 54a686a3e798..9c299147471a 100644
--- a/polkadot/node/core/pvf/tests/it/main.rs
+++ b/polkadot/node/core/pvf/tests/it/main.rs
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ impl TestHost {
 }
 
 #[tokio::test]
-async fn terminates_on_timeout() {
+async fn execute_job_terminates_on_timeout() {
 	let host = TestHost::new().await;
 
 	let start = std::time::Instant::now();