diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundDecoderTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundDecoderTests.java
index f2b8b317e8b44..47ae8f9783ea3 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundDecoderTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundDecoderTests.java
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ public void testCompressedDecode() throws IOException {
             transportMessage = new TestResponse(randomAlphaOfLength(100));
         }
 
-        final BytesReference totalBytes = serialize(false, Version.CURRENT, false, true, action, requestId, transportMessage);
+        final BytesReference totalBytes = serialize(isRequest, Version.CURRENT, false, true, action, requestId, transportMessage);
         final BytesStreamOutput out = new BytesStreamOutput();
         transportMessage.writeTo(out);
         final BytesReference uncompressedBytes = out.bytes();
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundHandlerTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundHandlerTests.java
index 33b13129d23f4..2553e7740990b 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundHandlerTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundHandlerTests.java
@@ -42,12 +42,14 @@
 import org.opensearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.opensearch.common.unit.TimeValue;
 import org.opensearch.common.util.BigArrays;
+import org.opensearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext;
 import org.opensearch.core.action.ActionListener;
 import org.opensearch.core.common.bytes.BytesArray;
 import org.opensearch.core.common.bytes.BytesReference;
 import org.opensearch.core.common.io.stream.InputStreamStreamInput;
 import org.opensearch.core.common.io.stream.NamedWriteableRegistry;
 import org.opensearch.core.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
+import org.opensearch.core.common.io.stream.Writeable;
 import org.opensearch.tasks.TaskManager;
 import org.opensearch.telemetry.tracing.noop.NoopTracer;
 import org.opensearch.test.MockLogAppender;
@@ -56,7 +58,6 @@
 import org.opensearch.threadpool.TestThreadPool;
 import org.opensearch.threadpool.ThreadPool;
 import org.opensearch.transport.nativeprotocol.NativeInboundMessage;
-import org.opensearch.transport.nativeprotocol.NativeOutboundMessageTests;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
 
@@ -75,7 +76,17 @@
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.startsWith;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.instanceOf;
 
-public class InboundHandlerTests extends OpenSearchTestCase {
+public abstract class InboundHandlerTests extends OpenSearchTestCase {
+
+    public abstract BytesReference serializeOutboundRequest(
+        ThreadContext threadContext,
+        Writeable message,
+        Version version,
+        String action,
+        long requestId,
+        boolean compress,
+        boolean handshake
+    ) throws IOException;
 
     private final TestThreadPool threadPool = new TestThreadPool(getClass().getName());
     private final Version version = Version.CURRENT;
@@ -194,12 +205,13 @@ public TestResponse read(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         requestHandlers.registerHandler(registry);
         String requestValue = randomAlphaOfLength(10);
 
-        BytesReference fullRequestBytes = NativeOutboundMessageTests.serializeNativeOutboundRequest(
+        BytesReference fullRequestBytes = serializeOutboundRequest(
             threadPool.getThreadContext(),
             new TestRequest(requestValue),
             version,
             action,
             requestId,
+            false,
             false
         );
         BytesReference requestContent = fullRequestBytes.slice(headerSize, fullRequestBytes.length() - headerSize);
@@ -397,12 +409,13 @@ public void onResponseSent(long requestId, String action, Exception error) {
         });
 
         // Create the request payload with 1 byte overflow
-        final BytesRef bytes = NativeOutboundMessageTests.serializeNativeOutboundRequest(
+        final BytesRef bytes = serializeOutboundRequest(
             threadPool.getThreadContext(),
             new TestRequest(requestValue),
             version,
             action,
             requestId,
+            false,
             false
         ).toBytesRef();
         final ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(bytes.length + 1);
@@ -469,12 +482,13 @@ public void onResponseSent(long requestId, String action, Exception error) {
             }
         });
 
-        final BytesReference fullRequestBytes = NativeOutboundMessageTests.serializeNativeOutboundRequest(
+        final BytesReference fullRequestBytes = serializeOutboundRequest(
             threadPool.getThreadContext(),
             new TestRequest(requestValue),
             version,
             action,
             requestId,
+            false,
             false
         );
         // Create the request payload by intentionally stripping 1 byte away
@@ -537,12 +551,13 @@ public TestResponse read(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         requestHandlers.registerHandler(registry);
         String requestValue = randomAlphaOfLength(10);
 
-        BytesReference fullRequestBytes = NativeOutboundMessageTests.serializeNativeOutboundRequest(
+        BytesReference fullRequestBytes = serializeOutboundRequest(
             threadPool.getThreadContext(),
             new TestRequest(requestValue),
             version,
             action,
             requestId,
+            false,
             false
         );
         BytesReference requestContent = fullRequestBytes.slice(headerSize, fullRequestBytes.length() - headerSize);
@@ -630,12 +645,13 @@ public TestResponse read(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         requestHandlers.registerHandler(registry);
         String requestValue = randomAlphaOfLength(10);
 
-        BytesReference fullRequestBytes = NativeOutboundMessageTests.serializeNativeOutboundRequest(
+        BytesReference fullRequestBytes = serializeOutboundRequest(
             threadPool.getThreadContext(),
             new TestRequest(requestValue),
             version,
             action,
             requestId,
+            false,
             false
         );
         BytesReference requestContent = fullRequestBytes.slice(headerSize, fullRequestBytes.length() - headerSize);
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/nativeprotocol/NativeInboundHandlerTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/nativeprotocol/NativeInboundHandlerTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ec0c1a50d5560
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/transport/nativeprotocol/NativeInboundHandlerTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * The OpenSearch Contributors require contributions made to
+ * this file be licensed under the Apache-2.0 license or a
+ * compatible open source license.
+ */
+
+package org.opensearch.transport.nativeprotocol;
+
+import org.opensearch.Version;
+import org.opensearch.common.io.stream.BytesStreamOutput;
+import org.opensearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext;
+import org.opensearch.core.common.bytes.BytesReference;
+import org.opensearch.core.common.io.stream.Writeable;
+import org.opensearch.transport.InboundHandlerTests;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class NativeInboundHandlerTests extends InboundHandlerTests {
+
+    @Override
+    public BytesReference serializeOutboundRequest(
+        ThreadContext threadContext,
+        Writeable message,
+        Version version,
+        String action,
+        long requestId,
+        boolean compress,
+        boolean handshake
+    ) throws IOException {
+        NativeOutboundMessage.Request request = new NativeOutboundMessage.Request(
+            threadContext,
+            new String[0],
+            message,
+            version,
+            action,
+            requestId,
+            handshake,
+            compress
+        );
+        return request.serialize(new BytesStreamOutput());
+    }
+
+}