diff --git a/tests/requirements-py3.txt b/tests/requirements-py3.txt
index 2247ed917..2eed2f5da 100644
--- a/tests/requirements-py3.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements-py3.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ uvloop; platform_system != "Windows"
 
 # optional for shell wrapper tests
 bpython
-brotlipy
+brotlipy  # optional for HTTP compress downloader middleware tests
+zstandard  # optional for HTTP compress downloader middleware tests
 ipython
 pywin32; sys_platform == "win32"
diff --git a/tests/sample_data/compressed/html-zstd-static-content-size.bin b/tests/sample_data/compressed/html-zstd-static-content-size.bin
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diff --git a/tests/sample_data/compressed/html-zstd-streaming-no-content-size.bin b/tests/sample_data/compressed/html-zstd-streaming-no-content-size.bin
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diff --git a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py
index a806f55ce..63a69f7af 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ FORMAT = {
     'rawdeflate': ('html-rawdeflate.bin', 'deflate'),
     'zlibdeflate': ('html-zlibdeflate.bin', 'deflate'),
     'br': ('html-br.bin', 'br'),
+    # $ zstd raw.html --content-size -o html-zstd-static-content-size.bin
+    'zstd-static-content-size': ('html-zstd-static-content-size.bin', 'zstd'),
+    # $ zstd raw.html --no-content-size -o html-zstd-static-no-content-size.bin
+    'zstd-static-no-content-size': ('html-zstd-static-no-content-size.bin', 'zstd'),
+    # $ cat raw.html | zstd -o html-zstd-streaming-no-content-size.bin
+    'zstd-streaming-no-content-size': ('html-zstd-static-no-content-size.bin', 'zstd'),
 }
 
 
@@ -80,6 +86,26 @@ class HttpCompressionTest(TestCase):
         assert newresponse.body.startswith(b"<!DOCTYPE")
         assert 'Content-Encoding' not in newresponse.headers
 
+    def test_process_response_zstd(self):
+        try:
+            import zstandard  # noqa: F401
+        except ImportError:
+            raise SkipTest("no zstd support (zstandard)")
+        raw_content = None
+        for check_key in FORMAT:
+            if not check_key.startswith('zstd-'):
+                continue
+            response = self._getresponse(check_key)
+            request = response.request
+            self.assertEqual(response.headers['Content-Encoding'], b'zstd')
+            newresponse = self.mw.process_response(request, response, self.spider)
+            if raw_content is None:
+                raw_content = newresponse.body
+            assert raw_content == newresponse.body
+            assert newresponse is not response
+            assert newresponse.body.startswith(b"<!DOCTYPE")
+            assert 'Content-Encoding' not in newresponse.headers
+
     def test_process_response_rawdeflate(self):
         response = self._getresponse('rawdeflate')
         request = response.request