diff --git a/parquet-avro/pom.xml b/parquet-avro/pom.xml
index 27cabb757f..156f98e364 100644
--- a/parquet-avro/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-avro/pom.xml
@@ -133,6 +133,30 @@
       <version>${powermock.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
+      <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
+      <version>3.25.3</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit-jupiter-params</artifactId>
+      <version>5.12.2</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+      <version>${jackson-databind.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+      <version>${jackson-databind.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/variant/JsonUtil.java b/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/variant/JsonUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..887324867a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/variant/JsonUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.parquet.variant;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonFactory;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonFactoryBuilder;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.apache.parquet.Preconditions;
+
+public class JsonUtil {
+
+  private JsonUtil() {}
+
+  private static final JsonFactory FACTORY = new JsonFactoryBuilder()
+      .configure(JsonFactory.Feature.INTERN_FIELD_NAMES, false)
+      .configure(JsonFactory.Feature.FAIL_ON_SYMBOL_HASH_OVERFLOW, false)
+      .build();
+  private static final ObjectMapper MAPPER = new ObjectMapper(FACTORY);
+
+  public static ObjectMapper mapper() {
+    return MAPPER;
+  }
+
+  public static int getInt(String property, JsonNode node) {
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(node.has(property), "Cannot parse missing int: %s", property);
+    JsonNode pNode = node.get(property);
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(
+        pNode != null && !pNode.isNull() && pNode.isIntegralNumber() && pNode.canConvertToInt(),
+        "Cannot parse to an integer value: %s: %s",
+        property,
+        pNode);
+    return pNode.asInt();
+  }
+
+  public static String getString(String property, JsonNode node) {
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(node.has(property), "Cannot parse missing string: %s", property);
+    JsonNode pNode = node.get(property);
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(
+        pNode != null && !pNode.isNull() && pNode.isTextual(),
+        "Cannot parse to a string value: %s: %s",
+        property,
+        pNode);
+    return pNode.asText();
+  }
+
+  public static String getStringOrNull(String property, JsonNode node) {
+    if (!node.has(property)) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    JsonNode pNode = node.get(property);
+    if (pNode != null && pNode.isNull()) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    return getString(property, node);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/variant/TestVariantReadsFromFile.java b/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/variant/TestVariantReadsFromFile.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c00c989037
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/variant/TestVariantReadsFromFile.java
@@ -0,0 +1,293 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.parquet.variant;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.AssertionsForClassTypes.assertThat;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+import com.google.common.collect.Streams;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+import org.apache.avro.Schema;
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData;
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.parquet.Preconditions;
+import org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroParquetReader;
+import org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroReadSupport;
+import org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter;
+import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetFileReader;
+import org.apache.parquet.io.InputFile;
+import org.apache.parquet.io.LocalInputFile;
+import org.apache.parquet.schema.MessageType;
+import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.Arguments;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.MethodSource;
+
+public class TestVariantReadsFromFile {
+  private static final String CASE_LOCATION = null;
+
+  private static Stream<JsonNode> cases() throws IOException {
+    if (CASE_LOCATION == null) {
+      return Stream.of(JsonUtil.mapper().readValue("{\"case_number\": -1}", JsonNode.class));
+    }
+
+    InputFile caseJsonInput = new LocalInputFile(Paths.get(CASE_LOCATION + "/cases.json"));
+    JsonNode cases = JsonUtil.mapper().readValue(caseJsonInput.newStream(), JsonNode.class);
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(
+        cases != null && cases.isArray(), "Invalid case JSON, not an array: %s", caseJsonInput);
+
+    return Streams.stream(cases);
+  }
+
+  private static Stream<Arguments> errorCases() throws IOException {
+    return cases().filter(caseNode -> caseNode.has("error_message") || !caseNode.has("parquet_file"))
+        .map(caseNode -> {
+          int caseNumber = JsonUtil.getInt("case_number", caseNode);
+          String testName = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("test", caseNode);
+          String parquetFile = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("parquet_file", caseNode);
+          String errorMessage = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("error_message", caseNode);
+          return Arguments.of(caseNumber, testName, parquetFile, errorMessage);
+        });
+  }
+
+  private static Stream<Arguments> singleVariantCases() throws IOException {
+    return cases().filter(caseNode -> caseNode.has("variant_file") || !caseNode.has("parquet_file"))
+        .map(caseNode -> {
+          int caseNumber = JsonUtil.getInt("case_number", caseNode);
+          String testName = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("test", caseNode);
+          String variant = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("variant", caseNode);
+          String parquetFile = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("parquet_file", caseNode);
+          String variantFile = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("variant_file", caseNode);
+          return Arguments.of(caseNumber, testName, variant, parquetFile, variantFile);
+        });
+  }
+
+  private static Stream<Arguments> multiVariantCases() throws IOException {
+    return cases().filter(caseNode -> caseNode.has("variant_files") || !caseNode.has("parquet_file"))
+        .map(caseNode -> {
+          int caseNumber = JsonUtil.getInt("case_number", caseNode);
+          String testName = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("test", caseNode);
+          String parquetFile = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("parquet_file", caseNode);
+          List<String> variantFiles = caseNode.has("variant_files")
+              ? Lists.newArrayList(Iterables.transform(
+                  caseNode.get("variant_files"),
+                  node -> node == null || node.isNull() ? null : node.asText()))
+              : null;
+          String variants = JsonUtil.getStringOrNull("variants", caseNode);
+          return Arguments.of(caseNumber, testName, variants, parquetFile, variantFiles);
+        });
+  }
+
+  @ParameterizedTest
+  @MethodSource("errorCases")
+  public void testError(int caseNumber, String testName, String parquetFile, String errorMessage) {
+    if (parquetFile == null) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    Assertions.assertThatThrownBy(() -> readParquet(parquetFile)).as("Test case %s: %s", caseNumber, testName);
+    // .hasMessage(errorMessage);
+  }
+
+  @ParameterizedTest
+  @MethodSource("singleVariantCases")
+  public void testSingleVariant(
+      int caseNumber, String testName, String variant, String parquetFile, String variantFile)
+      throws IOException {
+    if (parquetFile == null) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    Variant expected = readVariant(variantFile);
+
+    GenericRecord record = readParquetRecord(parquetFile);
+    Assertions.assertThat(record.get("var")).isInstanceOf(GenericData.Record.class);
+    GenericData.Record actual = (GenericData.Record) record.get("var");
+    assertEqual(expected, actual);
+  }
+
+  @ParameterizedTest
+  @MethodSource("multiVariantCases")
+  public void testMultiVariant(
+      int caseNumber, String testName, String variants, String parquetFile, List<String> variantFiles)
+      throws IOException {
+    if (parquetFile == null) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    List<GenericRecord> records = readParquet(parquetFile);
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < records.size(); i += 1) {
+      GenericRecord record = records.get(i);
+      String variantFile = variantFiles.get(i);
+
+      if (variantFile != null) {
+        Variant expected = readVariant(variantFile);
+        Assertions.assertThat(record.get("var")).isInstanceOf(GenericData.Record.class);
+        GenericData.Record actual = (GenericData.Record) record.get("var");
+        assertEqual(expected, actual);
+      } else {
+        Assertions.assertThat(record.get("var")).isNull();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  private static byte[] readAllBytes(InputStream in) throws IOException {
+    ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+    byte[] data = new byte[4096];
+    int nRead;
+    while ((nRead = in.read(data, 0, data.length)) != -1) {
+      buffer.write(data, 0, nRead);
+    }
+    return buffer.toByteArray();
+  }
+
+  private Variant readVariant(String variantFile) throws IOException {
+    try (InputStream in = new LocalInputFile(Paths.get(CASE_LOCATION + "/" + variantFile)).newStream()) {
+      byte[] variantBytes = readAllBytes(in);
+      ByteBuffer variantBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(variantBytes);
+
+      byte header = variantBytes[0];
+      int offsetSize = 1 + ((header & 0b11000000) >> 6);
+      int dictSize = VariantUtil.readUnsigned(variantBuffer, 1, offsetSize);
+      int offsetListOffset = 1 + offsetSize;
+      int dataOffset = offsetListOffset + ((1 + dictSize) * offsetSize);
+      int endOffset = dataOffset
+          + VariantUtil.readUnsigned(variantBuffer, offsetListOffset + (offsetSize * dictSize), offsetSize);
+
+      return new Variant(VariantUtil.slice(variantBuffer, endOffset), variantBuffer);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private GenericRecord readParquetRecord(String parquetFile) throws IOException {
+    return Iterables.getOnlyElement(readParquet(parquetFile));
+  }
+
+  private List<GenericRecord> readParquet(String parquetFile) throws IOException {
+    org.apache.parquet.io.InputFile inputFile = new LocalInputFile(Paths.get(CASE_LOCATION + "/" + parquetFile));
+    List<GenericRecord> records = Lists.newArrayList();
+
+    // Set Avro read schema converted from the Parquet schema
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration(false);
+    try (ParquetFileReader fileReader = ParquetFileReader.open(inputFile)) {
+      final MessageType fileSchema = fileReader.getFileMetaData().getSchema();
+      Schema avroReadSchema = new AvroSchemaConverter().convert(fileSchema);
+      AvroReadSupport.setAvroReadSchema(conf, avroReadSchema);
+    }
+
+    try (org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetReader<GenericRecord> reader =
+        AvroParquetReader.<GenericRecord>builder(inputFile).withConf(conf).build()) {
+      GenericRecord record;
+      while ((record = reader.read()) != null) {
+        records.add(record);
+      }
+    }
+    return records;
+  }
+
+  private static void assertEqual(Variant expected, GenericData.Record actualRecord) {
+    assertThat(actualRecord).isNotNull();
+    assertThat(expected).isNotNull();
+    Variant actual = new Variant((ByteBuffer) actualRecord.get("value"), (ByteBuffer) actualRecord.get("metadata"));
+
+    assertEqual(expected, actual);
+  }
+
+  private static void assertEqual(Variant expected, Variant actual) {
+    assertThat(actual).isNotNull();
+    assertThat(expected).isNotNull();
+
+    assertThat(actual.getType()).isEqualTo(expected.getType());
+
+    switch (expected.getType()) {
+      case NULL:
+        // nothing to compare
+        break;
+      case BOOLEAN:
+        assertThat(actual.getBoolean()).isEqualTo(expected.getBoolean());
+        break;
+      case BYTE:
+        assertThat(actual.getByte()).isEqualTo(expected.getByte());
+        break;
+      case SHORT:
+        assertThat(actual.getShort()).isEqualTo(expected.getShort());
+        break;
+      case INT:
+      case DATE:
+        assertThat(actual.getInt()).isEqualTo(expected.getInt());
+        break;
+      case LONG:
+      case TIMESTAMP_TZ:
+      case TIMESTAMP_NTZ:
+      case TIME:
+      case TIMESTAMP_NANOS_TZ:
+      case TIMESTAMP_NANOS_NTZ:
+        assertThat(actual.getLong()).isEqualTo(expected.getLong());
+        break;
+      case FLOAT:
+        assertThat(actual.getFloat()).isEqualTo(expected.getFloat());
+        break;
+      case DOUBLE:
+        assertThat(actual.getDouble()).isEqualTo(expected.getDouble());
+        break;
+      case DECIMAL4:
+      case DECIMAL8:
+      case DECIMAL16:
+        assertThat(actual.getDecimal()).isEqualTo(expected.getDecimal());
+        break;
+      case STRING:
+        assertThat(actual.getString()).isEqualTo(expected.getString());
+        break;
+      case BINARY:
+        assertThat(actual.getBinary()).isEqualTo(expected.getBinary());
+        break;
+      case UUID:
+        assertThat(actual.getUUID()).isEqualTo(expected.getUUID());
+        break;
+      case OBJECT:
+        assertThat(actual.numObjectElements()).isEqualTo(expected.numObjectElements());
+        for (int i = 0; i < expected.numObjectElements(); ++i) {
+          Variant.ObjectField expectedField = expected.getFieldAtIndex(i);
+          Variant.ObjectField actualField = actual.getFieldAtIndex(i);
+
+          assertThat(actualField.key).isEqualTo(expectedField.key);
+          assertEqual(expectedField.value, actualField.value);
+        }
+        break;
+      case ARRAY:
+        assertThat(actual.numArrayElements()).isEqualTo(expected.numArrayElements());
+        for (int i = 0; i < expected.numArrayElements(); ++i) {
+          assertEqual(expected.getElementAtIndex(i), actual.getElementAtIndex(i));
+        }
+        break;
+      default:
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unknown Variant type: " + expected.getType());
+    }
+  }
+}