diff --git a/api/test/tree-shaking/tree-shaking.test.ts b/api/test/tree-shaking/tree-shaking.test.ts
index 7ce7111173e..bf1f0336f00 100644
--- a/api/test/tree-shaking/tree-shaking.test.ts
+++ b/api/test/tree-shaking/tree-shaking.test.ts
@@ -20,101 +20,107 @@ import * as path from 'path';
 import { Union } from 'unionfs';
 import { fs as mfs } from 'memfs';
 import * as realFs from 'fs';
+import * as semver from 'semver';
 
 /**
  * Verify that tree-shaking can be properly applied on the @opentelemetry/api package.
  * Unused optional apis should be able to be removed from the final bundle.
+ * 
+ * Webpack doesn't run in node 8 because it requires BigInt. Since we are testing
+ * build tooling here, we can safely skip tooling we know can't run anyway.
  */
-describe('tree-shaking', () => {
-  const allowedAPIs = ['ContextAPI', 'DiagAPI'];
-  const testAPIs = [
-    {
-      name: 'MetricsAPI',
-      export: 'metrics',
-    },
-    {
-      name: 'PropagationAPI',
-      export: 'propagation',
-    },
-    {
-      name: 'TraceAPI',
-      export: 'trace',
-    },
-  ];
-  const APIMatcher = /(?:class|function) (\w+API)/g;
-
-  const sourceCodePath = path.join(__dirname, 'test.js');
-  const outputPath = path.join(__dirname, 'output');
-  const outputFilename = path.join(outputPath, 'bundle.js');
-
-  afterEach(() => {
-    try {
-      mfs.unlinkSync(outputFilename);
-    } catch {
-      /** ignore */
-    }
-  });
-
-  for (const testAPI of testAPIs) {
-    it(`verify ${testAPI.name}`, async () => {
-      const sourceCode = `
-        import { ${testAPI.export} } from '../../';
-        console.log(${testAPI.export});
-      `;
-      mfs.mkdirpSync(path.dirname(sourceCodePath));
-      mfs.writeFileSync(sourceCodePath, sourceCode, { encoding: 'utf8' });
-
-      const compiler = webpack({
-        entry: sourceCodePath,
-        output: {
-          filename: 'bundle.js',
-          path: outputPath,
-        },
-        mode: 'production',
-        optimization: {
-          // disable minimization so that we can inspect the output easily.
-          minimize: false,
-          // disable module concatenation so that variable names will not be mangled.
-          concatenateModules: false,
-        },
-      });
-
-      const fs = new Union();
-      fs.use(mfs as any).use(realFs);
-
-      //direct webpack to use unionfs for file input
-      compiler.inputFileSystem = fs;
-      //direct webpack to output to memoryfs rather than to disk
-      compiler.outputFileSystem = {
-        ...mfs,
-        join: path.join,
-      } as any;
-
-      const stats = await new Promise<webpack.Stats>((resolve, reject) => {
-        compiler.run((err, stats) => {
-          if (err) {
-            return reject(err);
-          }
-          resolve(stats!);
+if (semver.gte(process.version, '10.4.0')) {
+  describe('tree-shaking', () => {
+    const allowedAPIs = ['ContextAPI', 'DiagAPI'];
+    const testAPIs = [
+      {
+        name: 'MetricsAPI',
+        export: 'metrics',
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'PropagationAPI',
+        export: 'propagation',
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'TraceAPI',
+        export: 'trace',
+      },
+    ];
+    const APIMatcher = /(?:class|function) (\w+API)/g;
+  
+    const sourceCodePath = path.join(__dirname, 'test.js');
+    const outputPath = path.join(__dirname, 'output');
+    const outputFilename = path.join(outputPath, 'bundle.js');
+  
+    afterEach(() => {
+      try {
+        mfs.unlinkSync(outputFilename);
+      } catch {
+        /** ignore */
+      }
+    });
+  
+    for (const testAPI of testAPIs) {
+      it(`verify ${testAPI.name}`, async () => {
+        const sourceCode = `
+          import { ${testAPI.export} } from '../../';
+          console.log(${testAPI.export});
+        `;
+        mfs.mkdirpSync(path.dirname(sourceCodePath));
+        mfs.writeFileSync(sourceCodePath, sourceCode, { encoding: 'utf8' });
+  
+        const compiler = webpack({
+          entry: sourceCodePath,
+          output: {
+            filename: 'bundle.js',
+            path: outputPath,
+          },
+          mode: 'production',
+          optimization: {
+            // disable minimization so that we can inspect the output easily.
+            minimize: false,
+            // disable module concatenation so that variable names will not be mangled.
+            concatenateModules: false,
+          },
+        });
+  
+        const fs = new Union();
+        fs.use(mfs as any).use(realFs);
+  
+        //direct webpack to use unionfs for file input
+        compiler.inputFileSystem = fs;
+        //direct webpack to output to memoryfs rather than to disk
+        compiler.outputFileSystem = {
+          ...mfs,
+          join: path.join,
+        } as any;
+  
+        const stats = await new Promise<webpack.Stats>((resolve, reject) => {
+          compiler.run((err, stats) => {
+            if (err) {
+              return reject(err);
+            }
+            resolve(stats!);
+          });
         });
+        assert.deepStrictEqual(stats.compilation.errors, []);
+        assert.deepStrictEqual(stats.compilation.warnings, []);
+  
+        const outputFile = mfs.readFileSync(outputFilename, 'utf8') as string;
+        const matches = new Set();
+        let match;
+        do {
+          match = APIMatcher.exec(outputFile);
+          if (match) {
+            matches.add(match[1]);
+          }
+        } while (match);
+  
+        // Remove allowed apis from checking list.
+        allowedAPIs.forEach(it => matches.delete(it));
+  
+        assert.deepStrictEqual(Array.from(matches), [testAPI.name]);
       });
-      assert.deepStrictEqual(stats.compilation.errors, []);
-      assert.deepStrictEqual(stats.compilation.warnings, []);
-
-      const outputFile = mfs.readFileSync(outputFilename, 'utf8') as string;
-      const matches = new Set();
-      let match;
-      do {
-        match = APIMatcher.exec(outputFile);
-        if (match) {
-          matches.add(match[1]);
-        }
-      } while (match);
-
-      // Remove allowed apis from checking list.
-      allowedAPIs.forEach(it => matches.delete(it));
-
-      assert.deepStrictEqual(Array.from(matches), [testAPI.name]);
-    });
-  }
-});
+    }
+  }).
+}