diff --git a/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/Makefile b/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8c7df1d5f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+include ../Makefile.tests_common
+
+USEPKG += qr-code-generator
+
+MESSAGE_TO_ENCODE ?= "https://riot-os.org"
+
+CFLAGS += -DMESSAGE_TO_ENCODE=\"$(MESSAGE_TO_ENCODE)\"
+
+include $(RIOTBASE)/Makefile.include
diff --git a/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/app.config.test b/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/app.config.test
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..105f736641
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/app.config.test
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+CONFIG_PACKAGE_QR-CODE-GENERATOR=y
diff --git a/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/main.c b/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d9b91be22e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2021 Inria
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+ * General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+ * directory for more details.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @ingroup     tests
+ * @{
+ *
+ * @file
+ * @brief       Test application for the qr-code-generator package
+ *
+ * @author      Alexandre Abadie <alexandre.abadie@inria.fr>
+ *
+ * @}
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include "qrcodegen.h"
+
+#ifndef MESSAGE_TO_ENCODE
+#define MESSAGE_TO_ENCODE   "unknown"
+#endif
+
+static uint8_t qr0[qrcodegen_BUFFER_LEN_FOR_VERSION(2)];
+static uint8_t buffer[qrcodegen_BUFFER_LEN_FOR_VERSION(2)];
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    if (!qrcodegen_encodeText(MESSAGE_TO_ENCODE,
+                              buffer, qr0, qrcodegen_Ecc_MEDIUM,
+                              qrcodegen_VERSION_MIN, qrcodegen_VERSION_MAX,
+                              qrcodegen_Mask_AUTO, true)) {
+        puts("Encoding error");
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    int size = qrcodegen_getSize(qr0);
+    for (int y = 0; y < size; y++) {
+        for (int x = 0; x < size; x++) {
+            printf("%s", qrcodegen_getModule(qr0, x, y) ? "██" : "  ");
+        }
+        puts("");
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/tests/01-run.py b/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/tests/01-run.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..d3961f6a21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pkg_qr-code-generator/tests/01-run.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Copyright (C) 2021 Inria
+#
+# This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+# directory for more details.
+
+import sys
+from testrunner import run
+
+
+QR_CODE = (
+    "██████████████  ██████████    ██    ██████████████\n"
+    "██          ██  ██    ██      ████  ██          ██\n"
+    "██  ██████  ██  ████    ██  ████    ██  ██████  ██\n"
+    "██  ██████  ██  ████        ██      ██  ██████  ██\n"
+    "██  ██████  ██  ██████████  ████    ██  ██████  ██\n"
+    "██          ██    ██  ██    ████    ██          ██\n"
+    "██████████████  ██  ██  ██  ██  ██  ██████████████\n"
+    "                ██      ██████  ██                \n"
+    "  ████  ██  ████    ██████  ██████  ██  ██████████\n"
+    "  ████    ██  ████████  ██        ████          ██\n"
+    "  ██  ████████  ██  ██  ████                ██████\n"
+    "██████  ██    ██    ██  ██            ██      ██  \n"
+    "          ████████  ██  ██        ██████  ██  ████\n"
+    "  ██          ████    ██  ██    ██████    ██    ██\n"
+    "██    ██    ██    ████████        ██  ██    ██████\n"
+    "  ██    ████  ████    ██        ██  ██  ██    ██  \n"
+    "██      ██  ██████          ████████████████      \n"
+    "                ██████    ██  ████      ████  ████\n"
+    "██████████████  ████████  ████████  ██  ████  ████\n"
+    "██          ██    ██  ██████    ██      ████    ██\n"
+    "██  ██████  ██  ██████████      ████████████    ██\n"
+    "██  ██████  ██    ████  ██  ██        ████████    \n"
+    "██  ██████  ██  ██  ████      ██  ██    ██      ██\n"
+    "██          ██  ████    ██████████      ████  ██  \n"
+    "██████████████          ██      ██  ████      ████\n"
+)
+
+
+def testfunc(child):
+    for line in QR_CODE.split("\n"):
+        child.expect_exact(line)
+    print("\nSUCCESS")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(run(testfunc))