diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/tests/test_zipkin_exporter.py b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/tests/test_zipkin_exporter.py
index f2ed8e233f9..337bc655626 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/tests/test_zipkin_exporter.py
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/tests/test_zipkin_exporter.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SpanExportResult
 from opentelemetry.sdk.util.instrumentation import InstrumentationInfo
 from opentelemetry.trace import TraceFlags
+from opentelemetry.trace.status import Status, StatusCanonicalCode
 
 
 class MockResponse:
@@ -174,6 +175,9 @@ def test_export(self):
         otel_spans[0].set_attribute("key_bool", False)
         otel_spans[0].set_attribute("key_string", "hello_world")
         otel_spans[0].set_attribute("key_float", 111.22)
+        otel_spans[0].set_status(
+            Status(StatusCanonicalCode.UNKNOWN, "Example description")
+        )
         otel_spans[0].end(end_time=end_times[0])
 
         otel_spans[1].start(start_time=start_times[1])
@@ -213,7 +217,8 @@ def test_export(self):
                     "key_bool": "False",
                     "key_string": "hello_world",
                     "key_float": "111.22",
-                    "ot.status_code": 0,
+                    "ot.status_code": 2,
+                    "ot.status_description": "Example description",
                 },
                 "annotations": [
                     {