diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0c9d2c97376..3507b51efc6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Also, that release drops support for Python 3.9, making Python 3.10 the minimum
 * Dropped support for Python 3.9 [#2626](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2626)
 * Removed the obsolete interface from DPNP to Numba JIT [#2647](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2647)
 * Removed the `newshape` parameter from `dpnp.reshape`, which has been deprecated since dpnp 0.17.0. Pass it positionally or use `shape=` on newer versions [#2670](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2670)
+* Removed unused `pytest` configuration from `pyproject.toml` [#2729](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2729)
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6fbc23ac1b8..42e142f266e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -163,26 +163,6 @@ allow-wildcard-with-all = true
 [tool.pylint.miscellaneous]
 notes = ["FIXME", "XXX"]
 
-[tool.pytest.ini.options]
-addopts = [
-  "--junitxml=junit.xml",
-  "--ignore setup.py",
-  "--ignore run_test.py",
-  "--cov-report term-missing",
-  "--tb native",
-  "--strict",
-  "--durations=20",
-  "-q -ra"
-]
-minversion = "6.0"
-norecursedirs = [
-  ".*",
-  "*.egg*",
-  "build",
-  "dist",
-  "conda-recipe"
-]
-
 [tool.versioneer]
 VCS = "git"
 parentdir_prefix = "dpnp-"