diff --git a/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py b/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py
index e23f5d53bc568d4d7b0009afea35c30593583893..6cc70df8d3f9b2a5c84c76a7402027c78b42a13e 100644
--- a/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py
+++ b/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py
@@ -305,21 +305,41 @@ def test_pipreqcheck_requirements(host, requirements_in_path, requirements_txt_p
         assert requirements_txt.mode == 0o640
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('pip_path', [
-    '/var/lib/pipreqcheck/virtualenv/bin/pip',
-    '/var/lib/pipreqcheck/virtualenv-py3/bin/pip',
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("pip_path, expected_packages",  [
+    ('/var/lib/pipreqcheck/virtualenv/bin/pip', [
+        "Click==7.0",
+        "pip==18.1",
+        "pip-tools==3.1.0",
+        "setuptools==40.6.2",
+        "six==1.11.0",
+        "wheel==0.32.3"
+    ]),
+    ('/var/lib/pipreqcheck/virtualenv-py3/bin/pip', [
+        "Click==7.0",
+        "pip==18.1",
+        "pip-tools==3.1.0",
+        "setuptools==40.6.2",
+        "six==1.11.0",
+        "wheel==0.32.3",
+    ]),
 ])
-def test_pipreqcheck_packages(host, pip_path):
+def test_pipreqcheck_virtualenv_packages(host, pip_path, expected_packages):
     """
-    Tests if Python virtual environment used for running the pip requirements
-    upgrade checks has correct version of pip installed.
+    Tests if correct packages are installed in virtualenv used for pip
+    requirements checks..
     """
 
-    with host.sudo():
-        packages = host.pip_package.get_packages(pip_path=pip_path)
+    packages = host.run("sudo -u %s %s freeze --all" % ('pipreqcheck', pip_path))
+
+    # Normalise package names and order.
+    expected_packages = sorted([unicode(p.lower()) for p in expected_packages])
+    actual_packages = sorted(packages.stdout.lower().split("\n"))
+
+    # This is a dummy distro-provided package ignored by the pip-tools.
+    if "pkg-resources==0.0.0" in actual_packages:
+        actual_packages.remove("pkg-resources==0.0.0")
 
-        assert packages['pip']['version'].rsplit('.', 1)[0] == '18'
-        assert 'pip-tools' in packages
+    assert actual_packages == expected_packages
 
 
 def test_pipreqcheck_script(host):