diff --git a/libs/vertexai/tests/integration_tests/test_embeddings.py b/libs/vertexai/tests/integration_tests/test_embeddings.py
index af109ed3..ffbcaa2c 100644
--- a/libs/vertexai/tests/integration_tests/test_embeddings.py
+++ b/libs/vertexai/tests/integration_tests/test_embeddings.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 from vertexai.vision_models import MultiModalEmbeddingModel  # type: ignore
 
 from langchain_google_vertexai.embeddings import (
-    EmbeddingTaskTypes,
     GoogleEmbeddingModelType,
     VertexAIEmbeddings,
 )
@@ -19,11 +18,6 @@
     ("multimodalembedding@001", 1408),
 ]
 
-_EMBEDDING_TASK_TYPES = [
-    "RETRIEVAL_QUERY",
-    "RETRIEVAL_DOCUMENT",
-]
-
 
 @pytest.mark.release
 def test_initialization() -> None:
@@ -60,22 +54,17 @@ def test_langchain_google_vertexai_embedding_documents(
 
 
 @pytest.mark.release
-@pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "embeddings_task_type",
-    _EMBEDDING_TASK_TYPES,
-)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "model_name, embeddings_dim",
     _EMBEDDING_MODELS,
 )
 def test_langchain_google_vertexai_embedding_documents_with_task_type(
-    embeddings_task_type: EmbeddingTaskTypes,
     model_name: str,
     embeddings_dim: int,
 ) -> None:
     documents = ["foo bar"] * 8
     model = VertexAIEmbeddings(model_name)
-    output = model.embed_documents(documents, embeddings_task_type=embeddings_task_type)
+    output = model.embed_documents(documents)
     assert len(output) == 8
     for embedding in output:
         assert len(embedding) == embeddings_dim
@@ -96,22 +85,17 @@ def test_langchain_google_vertexai_embedding_query(model_name, embeddings_dim) -
 
 
 @pytest.mark.release
-@pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "embeddings_task_type",
-    _EMBEDDING_TASK_TYPES,
-)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "model_name, embeddings_dim",
     _EMBEDDING_MODELS,
 )
 def test_langchain_google_vertexai_embedding_query_with_task_type(
-    embeddings_task_type: EmbeddingTaskTypes,
     model_name: str,
     embeddings_dim: int,
 ) -> None:
     document = "foo bar"
     model = VertexAIEmbeddings(model_name)
-    output = model.embed_query(document, embeddings_task_type=embeddings_task_type)
+    output = model.embed_query(document)
     assert len(output) == embeddings_dim
 
 
diff --git a/libs/vertexai/tests/unit_tests/test_embeddings.py b/libs/vertexai/tests/unit_tests/test_embeddings.py
index d41cc147..c5ab0fa2 100644
--- a/libs/vertexai/tests/unit_tests/test_embeddings.py
+++ b/libs/vertexai/tests/unit_tests/test_embeddings.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from typing import Any, Dict
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 
 import pytest
 from pydantic import model_validator
@@ -29,6 +29,49 @@ def test_langchain_google_vertexai_no_dups_dynamic_batch_size() -> None:
     assert len(batches) == 2
 
 
+@patch.object(VertexAIEmbeddings, "embed")
+def test_embed_documents_with_question_answering_task(mock_embed) -> None:
+    mock_embeddings = MockVertexAIEmbeddings("text-embedding-005")
+    texts = [f"text {i}" for i in range(5)]
+
+    embedding_dimension = 768
+    embeddings_task_type = "QUESTION_ANSWERING"
+
+    mock_embed.return_value = [[0.001] * embedding_dimension for _ in texts]
+
+    embeddings = mock_embeddings.embed_documents(
+        texts=texts, embeddings_task_type=embeddings_task_type
+    )
+
+    assert isinstance(embeddings, list)
+    assert len(embeddings) == len(texts)
+    assert len(embeddings[0]) == embedding_dimension
+
+    # Verify embed() was called correctly
+    mock_embed.assert_called_once_with(texts, 0, embeddings_task_type)
+
+
+@patch.object(VertexAIEmbeddings, "embed")
+def test_embed_query_with_question_answering_task(mock_embed) -> None:
+    mock_embeddings = MockVertexAIEmbeddings("text-embedding-005")
+    text = "text 0"
+
+    embedding_dimension = 768
+    embeddings_task_type = "QUESTION_ANSWERING"
+
+    mock_embed.return_value = [[0.001] * embedding_dimension]
+
+    embedding = mock_embeddings.embed_query(
+        text=text, embeddings_task_type=embeddings_task_type
+    )
+
+    assert isinstance(embedding, list)
+    assert len(embedding) == embedding_dimension
+
+    # Verify embed() was called correctly
+    mock_embed.assert_called_once_with([text], 1, embeddings_task_type)
+
+
 class MockVertexAIEmbeddings(VertexAIEmbeddings):
     """
     A mock class for avoiding instantiating VertexAI and the EmbeddingModel client