diff --git a/.github/utils/check_imports.py b/.github/utils/check_imports.py
index f65ebae4e1..c6593691dc 100644
--- a/.github/utils/check_imports.py
+++ b/.github/utils/check_imports.py
@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ import os
 import sys
 import traceback
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional
 
-from haystack import logging  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # this is needed to avoid circular imports
+from haystack import logging  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401 # this is needed to avoid circular imports
 
 
 def validate_module_imports(root_dir: str, exclude_subdirs: list[str] | None = None) -> tuple[list, list]:
diff --git a/haystack/__init__.py b/haystack/__init__.py
index 7daa0959e2..8d9bd0d319 100644
--- a/haystack/__init__.py
+++ b/haystack/__init__.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from haystack.core.pipeline import AsyncPipeline, Pipeline, PredefinedPipeline
 from haystack.core.serialization import default_from_dict, default_to_dict
 from haystack.core.super_component.super_component import SuperComponent, super_component
 from haystack.dataclasses import Answer, Document, ExtractedAnswer, GeneratedAnswer
-from haystack.version import __version__
+from haystack.version import __version__  # noqa: F401
 
 # Initialize the logging configuration
 # This is a no-op unless `structlog` is installed
diff --git a/haystack/components/builders/chat_prompt_builder.py b/haystack/components/builders/chat_prompt_builder.py
index 555124221a..1e46abf507 100644
--- a/haystack/components/builders/chat_prompt_builder.py
+++ b/haystack/components/builders/chat_prompt_builder.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from haystack.utils.jinja2_extensions import _extract_template_variables_and_ass
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 with LazyImport("Run 'pip install \"arrow>=1.3.0\"'") as arrow_import:
-    import arrow  # pylint: disable=unused-import
+    import arrow  # pylint: disable=unused-import # noqa: F401
 
 NO_TEXT_ERROR_MESSAGE = "ChatMessages from {role} role must contain text. Received ChatMessage with no text: {message}"
 
diff --git a/haystack/components/converters/image/file_to_image.py b/haystack/components/converters/image/file_to_image.py
index 140901f78e..c8ea7354ea 100644
--- a/haystack/components/converters/image/file_to_image.py
+++ b/haystack/components/converters/image/file_to_image.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ with LazyImport(
     "Image resizing will be applied, which requires the Pillow library. "
     "Run 'pip install pillow'"
 ) as pillow_import:
-    import PIL  # pylint: disable=unused-import
+    import PIL  # pylint: disable=unused-import # noqa: F401
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/haystack/components/converters/xlsx.py b/haystack/components/converters/xlsx.py
index b2238ac752..ed274848a3 100644
--- a/haystack/components/converters/xlsx.py
+++ b/haystack/components/converters/xlsx.py
@@ -15,11 +15,13 @@ from haystack.lazy_imports import LazyImport
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 with LazyImport("Run 'pip install pandas openpyxl'") as pandas_xlsx_import:
-    import openpyxl  # pylint: disable=unused-import # the library is used but not directly referenced
+    import openpyxl  # pylint: disable=unused-import # noqa: F401 # the library is used but not directly referenced
     import pandas as pd
 
 with LazyImport("Run 'pip install tabulate'") as tabulate_import:
-    from tabulate import tabulate  # pylint: disable=unused-import # the library is used but not directly referenced
+    from tabulate import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import
+        tabulate,  # noqa: F401 # the library is used but not directly referenced
+    )
 
 
 @component
diff --git a/haystack/components/extractors/__init__.py b/haystack/components/extractors/__init__.py
index d8e0c9d83d..bbce5a5d6a 100644
--- a/haystack/components/extractors/__init__.py
+++ b/haystack/components/extractors/__init__.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from .named_entity_extractor import NamedEntityAnnotation as NamedEntityAnnotation
     from .named_entity_extractor import NamedEntityExtractor as NamedEntityExtractor
     from .named_entity_extractor import NamedEntityExtractorBackend as NamedEntityExtractorBackend
-    from .regex_text_extractor import RegexTextExtractor
+    from .regex_text_extractor import RegexTextExtractor as RegexTextExtractor
 
 else:
     sys.modules[__name__] = LazyImporter(name=__name__, module_file=__file__, import_structure=_import_structure)
diff --git a/haystack/components/query/__init__.py b/haystack/components/query/__init__.py
index 38c33c5b7f..c4648a7d0a 100644
--- a/haystack/components/query/__init__.py
+++ b/haystack/components/query/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from lazy_imports import LazyImporter
 _import_structure = {"query_expander": ["QueryExpander"]}
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from .query_expander import QueryExpander
+    from .query_expander import QueryExpander as QueryExpander
 
 else:
     sys.modules[__name__] = LazyImporter(name=__name__, module_file=__file__, import_structure=_import_structure)
diff --git a/haystack/components/rankers/transformers_similarity.py b/haystack/components/rankers/transformers_similarity.py
index 77ef3abc51..0676166dde 100644
--- a/haystack/components/rankers/transformers_similarity.py
+++ b/haystack/components/rankers/transformers_similarity.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from haystack.utils import ComponentDevice, DeviceMap, Secret, deserialize_secre
 from haystack.utils.hf import deserialize_hf_model_kwargs, resolve_hf_device_map, serialize_hf_model_kwargs
 
 with LazyImport(message="Run 'pip install transformers[torch,sentencepiece]'") as torch_and_transformers_import:
-    import accelerate  # pylint: disable=unused-import # the library is used but not directly referenced
+    import accelerate  # pylint: disable=unused-import # noqa: F401 # the library is used but not directly referenced
     import torch
     from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, Dataset
     from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer
diff --git a/haystack/components/readers/extractive.py b/haystack/components/readers/extractive.py
index 5e93ca7a30..c902cf2980 100644
--- a/haystack/components/readers/extractive.py
+++ b/haystack/components/readers/extractive.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from haystack.utils import ComponentDevice, DeviceMap, Secret, deserialize_secre
 from haystack.utils.hf import deserialize_hf_model_kwargs, resolve_hf_device_map, serialize_hf_model_kwargs
 
 with LazyImport("Run 'pip install transformers[torch,sentencepiece]'") as torch_and_transformers_import:
-    import accelerate  # pylint: disable=unused-import # the library is used but not directly referenced
+    import accelerate  # pylint: disable=unused-import # noqa: F401 # the library is used but not directly referenced
     import torch
     from tokenizers import Encoding
     from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer
diff --git a/haystack/components/routers/file_type_router.py b/haystack/components/routers/file_type_router.py
index 25d13bb71f..863855dea0 100644
--- a/haystack/components/routers/file_type_router.py
+++ b/haystack/components/routers/file_type_router.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from haystack.dataclasses import ByteStream
 from haystack.utils.misc import _guess_mime_type  # ruff: isort: skip
 
 # We import CUSTOM_MIMETYPES here to prevent breaking change from moving to haystack.utils.misc
-from haystack.utils.misc import CUSTOM_MIMETYPES  # pylint: disable=unused-import
+from haystack.utils.misc import CUSTOM_MIMETYPES  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/haystack/telemetry/__init__.py b/haystack/telemetry/__init__.py
index 6fa29de4d1..2dd978019f 100644
--- a/haystack/telemetry/__init__.py
+++ b/haystack/telemetry/__init__.py
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+# ruff: noqa: F401
+
 from haystack.telemetry._telemetry import pipeline_running, tutorial_running
diff --git a/haystack/tools/__init__.py b/haystack/tools/__init__.py
index ce0b36168e..c07ddfa715 100644
--- a/haystack/tools/__init__.py
+++ b/haystack/tools/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 # NOTE: we do not use LazyImporter here because it creates conflicts between the tool module and the tool decorator
 
 # ruff: noqa: I001 (ignore import order as we need to import Tool before ComponentTool and PipelineTool)
-from typing import Union
 
 from haystack.tools.from_function import create_tool_from_function, tool
 from haystack.tools.tool import Tool, _check_duplicate_tool_names
diff --git a/haystack/tracing/__init__.py b/haystack/tracing/__init__.py
index ce07a0471d..ce69fd233e 100644
--- a/haystack/tracing/__init__.py
+++ b/haystack/tracing/__init__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+# ruff: noqa: F401
+
 from haystack.tracing.tracer import (  # noqa: I001 (otherwise we end up with partial imports)
     Span,
     Tracer,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ec558d2922..49b2168766 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -349,7 +349,6 @@ select = [
 ]
 
 ignore = [
-  "F401",    # unused-import
   "PERF203", # `try`-`except` within a loop incurs performance overhead
   "PERF401", # Use a list comprehension to create a transformed list
   "PLR1714", # repeated-equality-comparison
diff --git a/test/components/agents/test_agent.py b/test/components/agents/test_agent.py
index fba8154d78..b362e2fb1e 100644
--- a/test/components/agents/test_agent.py
+++ b/test/components/agents/test_agent.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 import re
 from datetime import datetime
-from typing import Any, Iterator, Optional, Union
+from typing import Any, Iterator
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock, patch
 
 import pytest
diff --git a/test/components/agents/test_agent_breakpoints.py b/test/components/agents/test_agent_breakpoints.py
index 69c2bfdc8e..c28d056edc 100644
--- a/test/components/agents/test_agent_breakpoints.py
+++ b/test/components/agents/test_agent_breakpoints.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import os
 from dataclasses import replace
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Optional, Union
+from typing import Any
 
 import pytest
 
diff --git a/test/components/agents/test_agent_breakpoints_inside_pipeline.py b/test/components/agents/test_agent_breakpoints_inside_pipeline.py
index 4d049243ae..ccc31a68c5 100644
--- a/test/components/agents/test_agent_breakpoints_inside_pipeline.py
+++ b/test/components/agents/test_agent_breakpoints_inside_pipeline.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import os
 import re
 import tempfile
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional
 
 import pytest
 
diff --git a/test/components/builders/test_chat_prompt_builder.py b/test/components/builders/test_chat_prompt_builder.py
index b1d3ce956b..baad766166 100644
--- a/test/components/builders/test_chat_prompt_builder.py
+++ b/test/components/builders/test_chat_prompt_builder.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 import logging
-from typing import Any, Optional, Union
+from typing import Any
 
 import arrow
 import pytest
diff --git a/test/components/builders/test_prompt_builder.py b/test/components/builders/test_prompt_builder.py
index 7069a71575..83edc09632 100644
--- a/test/components/builders/test_prompt_builder.py
+++ b/test/components/builders/test_prompt_builder.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 import logging
-from typing import Any, Optional
+from typing import Any
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import arrow
diff --git a/test/components/converters/test_textfile_to_document.py b/test/components/converters/test_textfile_to_document.py
index bd0cf2a391..56f45e1771 100644
--- a/test/components/converters/test_textfile_to_document.py
+++ b/test/components/converters/test_textfile_to_document.py
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 import logging
 import os
 
-import pytest
-
 from haystack.components.converters.txt import TextFileToDocument
 from haystack.dataclasses import ByteStream
 
diff --git a/test/components/converters/test_xlsx_to_document.py b/test/components/converters/test_xlsx_to_document.py
index 730a3028f8..5f3e455f73 100644
--- a/test/components/converters/test_xlsx_to_document.py
+++ b/test/components/converters/test_xlsx_to_document.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 import logging
-from typing import Union
 
 import pytest
 
diff --git a/test/components/embedders/test_openai_document_embedder.py b/test/components/embedders/test_openai_document_embedder.py
index 3f0e0375f9..439cfa7fef 100644
--- a/test/components/embedders/test_openai_document_embedder.py
+++ b/test/components/embedders/test_openai_document_embedder.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 import os
-import random
 from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
 
 import pytest
diff --git a/test/components/generators/chat/test_azure.py b/test/components/generators/chat/test_azure.py
index 49a3c3768d..9409465aff 100644
--- a/test/components/generators/chat/test_azure.py
+++ b/test/components/generators/chat/test_azure.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import json
 import os
-from typing import Any, Optional
+from typing import Any
 
 import pytest
 from openai import OpenAIError
diff --git a/test/components/generators/chat/test_azure_responses.py b/test/components/generators/chat/test_azure_responses.py
index 231ae880c4..e1c089546f 100644
--- a/test/components/generators/chat/test_azure_responses.py
+++ b/test/components/generators/chat/test_azure_responses.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import json
 import os
-from typing import Any, Optional
+from typing import Any
 
 import pytest
 from openai import OpenAIError
diff --git a/test/components/generators/chat/test_fallback.py b/test/components/generators/chat/test_fallback.py
index c2768e218a..52d5f6bcf7 100644
--- a/test/components/generators/chat/test_fallback.py
+++ b/test/components/generators/chat/test_fallback.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import asyncio
 import time
-from typing import Any, Optional
+from typing import Any
 from urllib.error import HTTPError as URLLibHTTPError
 
 import pytest
diff --git a/test/components/generators/chat/test_hugging_face_local.py b/test/components/generators/chat/test_hugging_face_local.py
index 97782a2912..ca5ce2de88 100644
--- a/test/components/generators/chat/test_hugging_face_local.py
+++ b/test/components/generators/chat/test_hugging_face_local.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 import asyncio
-import gc
-from typing import Optional
 from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
 
 import pytest
@@ -12,12 +10,11 @@ from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizer
 
 from haystack.components.generators.chat import HuggingFaceLocalChatGenerator
 from haystack.dataclasses import ChatMessage, ChatRole, ToolCall
-from haystack.dataclasses.streaming_chunk import AsyncStreamingCallbackT, StreamingChunk
+from haystack.dataclasses.streaming_chunk import StreamingChunk
 from haystack.tools import Tool
 from haystack.tools.toolset import Toolset
 from haystack.utils import ComponentDevice
 from haystack.utils.auth import Secret
-from haystack.utils.hf import AsyncHFTokenStreamingHandler
 
 
 # used to test serialization of streaming_callback
diff --git a/test/components/generators/chat/test_openai.py b/test/components/generators/chat/test_openai.py
index a007ddcb13..1945821128 100644
--- a/test/components/generators/chat/test_openai.py
+++ b/test/components/generators/chat/test_openai.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import json
 import logging
 import os
 from datetime import datetime
-from typing import Any, Optional
+from typing import Any
 from unittest.mock import ANY, MagicMock, patch
 
 import pytest
diff --git a/test/components/generators/chat/test_openai_responses.py b/test/components/generators/chat/test_openai_responses.py
index 5765d4e595..89a513b997 100644
--- a/test/components/generators/chat/test_openai_responses.py
+++ b/test/components/generators/chat/test_openai_responses.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import json
 import os
-from typing import Any, Optional
+from typing import Any
 from unittest.mock import ANY, MagicMock
 
 import pytest
diff --git a/test/components/generators/test_openai_dalle.py b/test/components/generators/test_openai_dalle.py
index 548b210269..9015b2ee64 100644
--- a/test/components/generators/test_openai_dalle.py
+++ b/test/components/generators/test_openai_dalle.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
+from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import pytest
 from openai.types import ImagesResponse
diff --git a/test/components/retrievers/test_auto_merging_retriever_async.py b/test/components/retrievers/test_auto_merging_retriever_async.py
index 4913c2aeaf..9eadd988b7 100644
--- a/test/components/retrievers/test_auto_merging_retriever_async.py
+++ b/test/components/retrievers/test_auto_merging_retriever_async.py
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@
 
 import pytest
 
-from haystack import Document, Pipeline
+from haystack import Document
 from haystack.components.preprocessors import HierarchicalDocumentSplitter
-from haystack.components.retrievers import InMemoryBM25Retriever
 from haystack.components.retrievers.auto_merging_retriever import AutoMergingRetriever
 from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
 
diff --git a/test/components/retrievers/test_filter_retriever_async.py b/test/components/retrievers/test_filter_retriever_async.py
index a8668aadd8..2470108e15 100644
--- a/test/components/retrievers/test_filter_retriever_async.py
+++ b/test/components/retrievers/test_filter_retriever_async.py
@@ -6,11 +6,10 @@ from typing import Any
 
 import pytest
 
-from haystack import AsyncPipeline, DeserializationError, Pipeline
+from haystack import AsyncPipeline
 from haystack.components.retrievers.filter_retriever import FilterRetriever
 from haystack.dataclasses import Document
 from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
-from haystack.testing.factory import document_store_class
 
 
 @pytest.fixture()
diff --git a/test/components/retrievers/test_sentence_window_retriever_async.py b/test/components/retrievers/test_sentence_window_retriever_async.py
index 724495e80f..b8652ba253 100644
--- a/test/components/retrievers/test_sentence_window_retriever_async.py
+++ b/test/components/retrievers/test_sentence_window_retriever_async.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import re
 
 import pytest
 
-from haystack import Document, Pipeline
+from haystack import Document
 from haystack.components.preprocessors import DocumentSplitter
 from haystack.components.retrievers import InMemoryBM25Retriever
 from haystack.components.retrievers.sentence_window_retriever import SentenceWindowRetriever
diff --git a/test/components/routers/test_document_type_router.py b/test/components/routers/test_document_type_router.py
index e452bd10c1..61bb09fe5d 100644
--- a/test/components/routers/test_document_type_router.py
+++ b/test/components/routers/test_document_type_router.py
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-from pathlib import Path
-from unittest.mock import patch
-
 import pytest
 
 from haystack import Pipeline
diff --git a/test/components/routers/test_file_router.py b/test/components/routers/test_file_router.py
index da47ce447e..a25fc2eb7c 100644
--- a/test/components/routers/test_file_router.py
+++ b/test/components/routers/test_file_router.py
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ from pathlib import PosixPath
 from unittest.mock import mock_open, patch
 
 import pytest
-from packaging import version
 
-import haystack
 from haystack import Pipeline
 from haystack.components.converters import PyPDFToDocument, TextFileToDocument
 from haystack.components.routers.file_type_router import FileTypeRouter
diff --git a/test/components/routers/test_metadata_router.py b/test/components/routers/test_metadata_router.py
index ea4479c814..6085e29a16 100644
--- a/test/components/routers/test_metadata_router.py
+++ b/test/components/routers/test_metadata_router.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-from typing import Union
-
 import pytest
 
 from haystack import Pipeline
diff --git a/test/components/tools/test_tool_invoker.py b/test/components/tools/test_tool_invoker.py
index 62bcad4895..ee457169a6 100644
--- a/test/components/tools/test_tool_invoker.py
+++ b/test/components/tools/test_tool_invoker.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 import datetime
 import json
-import os
 import time
 from typing import Any
 from unittest.mock import patch
diff --git a/test/core/pipeline/break_points/test_pipeline_breakpoints_loops.py b/test/core/pipeline/break_points/test_pipeline_breakpoints_loops.py
index 3935b2e7fa..91b14b2e2c 100644
--- a/test/core/pipeline/break_points/test_pipeline_breakpoints_loops.py
+++ b/test/core/pipeline/break_points/test_pipeline_breakpoints_loops.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 import json
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 
 import pydantic
diff --git a/test/core/pipeline/features/conftest.py b/test/core/pipeline/features/conftest.py
index 1d9946df97..5b61d1479c 100644
--- a/test/core/pipeline/features/conftest.py
+++ b/test/core/pipeline/features/conftest.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import asyncio
 import re
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Union
+from typing import Any
 
 import pytest
 from pandas import DataFrame
diff --git a/test/core/pipeline/features/test_run.py b/test/core/pipeline/features/test_run.py
index 463197bdbc..97fbb93171 100644
--- a/test/core/pipeline/features/test_run.py
+++ b/test/core/pipeline/features/test_run.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import json
 import re
 from copy import deepcopy
-from typing import Any, Optional, Union
+from typing import Any
 from unittest.mock import ANY
 
 import pytest
diff --git a/test/core/pipeline/test_utils.py b/test/core/pipeline/test_utils.py
index f1e239a3dc..1dc4248450 100644
--- a/test/core/pipeline/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/core/pipeline/test_utils.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from haystack.core.pipeline.utils import (
     args_deprecated,
     parse_connect_string,
 )
-from haystack.tools import ComponentTool, Tool
+from haystack.tools import ComponentTool
 
 
 def get_weather_report(city: str) -> str:
diff --git a/test/core/super_component/test_super_component.py b/test/core/super_component/test_super_component.py
index b0ee929ba0..aa3b1b3ee4 100644
--- a/test/core/super_component/test_super_component.py
+++ b/test/core/super_component/test_super_component.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-from typing import Any, Union
+from typing import Any
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import pytest
diff --git a/test/core/test_importing.py b/test/test_imports.py
similarity index 58%
rename from test/core/test_importing.py
rename to test/test_imports.py
index c3f0341c21..ac147b5468 100644
--- a/test/core/test_importing.py
+++ b/test/test_imports.py
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@
 import sys
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
+from haystack.lazy_imports import LazyImport
 
-def test_lazy_import():
+
+def test_lazy_importer_avoids_importing_unused_modules():
     # Save the original state of the module if it exists
     original_imported = sys.modules.get("haystack.components.generators.chat.azure")
 
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ def test_lazy_import():
         if original_imported:
             del sys.modules["haystack.components.generators.chat.azure"]
 
-        from haystack.components.generators.chat import OpenAIChatGenerator  # Import the intended class
+        from haystack.components.generators.chat import OpenAIChatGenerator  # Import the intended class # noqa: F401
 
         assert "haystack.components.generators.chat.openai" in sys.modules.keys()
         assert "haystack.components.generators.chat.azure" not in sys.modules.keys()
@@ -23,3 +25,17 @@ def test_lazy_import():
     # Restore the module if it was previously imported (preserves test isolation)
     if original_imported:
         sys.modules["haystack.components.generators.chat.azure"] = original_imported
+
+
+def test_import_error_is_suppressed_and_deferred():
+    with LazyImport() as lazy_import:
+        import a_module  # noqa: F401
+
+    assert lazy_import._deferred is not None
+    exc_value, message = lazy_import._deferred
+    assert isinstance(exc_value, ImportError)
+    expected_message = (
+        "Haystack failed to import the optional dependency 'a_module'. Try 'pip install a_module'. "
+        "Original error: No module named 'a_module'"
+    )
+    assert expected_message in message
diff --git a/test/test_lazy_imports.py b/test/test_lazy_imports.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b7d8043b30..0000000000
--- a/test/test_lazy_imports.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-present deepset GmbH <info@deepset.ai>
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-import pytest
-
-from haystack.lazy_imports import DEFAULT_IMPORT_ERROR_MSG, LazyImport
-
-
-class TestLazyImport:
-    def test_import_error_is_suppressed_and_deferred(self):
-        with LazyImport() as lazy_import:
-            import a_module
-
-        assert lazy_import._deferred is not None
-        exc_value, message = lazy_import._deferred
-        assert isinstance(exc_value, ImportError)
-        expected_message = (
-            "Haystack failed to import the optional dependency 'a_module'. Try 'pip install a_module'. "
-            "Original error: No module named 'a_module'"
-        )
-        assert expected_message in message
diff --git a/test/testing/test_factory.py b/test/testing/test_factory.py
index 9e3ff4501f..071e4e51cc 100644
--- a/test/testing/test_factory.py
+++ b/test/testing/test_factory.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-import pytest
-
 from haystack.core.component import component
 from haystack.dataclasses import Document
 from haystack.testing.factory import component_class, document_store_class
diff --git a/test/tools/test_from_function.py b/test/tools/test_from_function.py
index 3b67a7ebf6..888d73e810 100644
--- a/test/tools/test_from_function.py
+++ b/test/tools/test_from_function.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-from typing import Annotated, Literal, Optional
+from typing import Annotated, Literal
 
 import pytest
 
diff --git a/test/tools/test_toolset_wrapper.py b/test/tools/test_toolset_wrapper.py
index 42a2c5c96f..2cb79d15e4 100644
--- a/test/tools/test_toolset_wrapper.py
+++ b/test/tools/test_toolset_wrapper.py
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@
 import pytest
 
 from haystack.components.agents import Agent
-from haystack.components.tools import ToolInvoker
 from haystack.core.component.component import component
-from haystack.tools import Tool, Toolset, warm_up_tools
+from haystack.tools import Tool, Toolset
 from haystack.tools.toolset import _ToolsetWrapper