diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/validate_modules.py b/test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/validate_modules.py
index 0eccc01f9ca..5743ab7f3d9 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/validate_modules.py
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/validate_modules.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class ValidateModulesTest(SanitySingleVersion):
 
         cmd = [
             python.path,
-            os.path.join(SANITY_ROOT, 'validate-modules', 'validate-modules'),
+            os.path.join(SANITY_ROOT, 'validate-modules', 'validate.py'),
             '--format', 'json',
             '--arg-spec',
         ] + paths
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate-modules b/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate-modules
deleted file mode 120000
index 11a5d8e18ab..00000000000
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate-modules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-main.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/main.py b/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate.py
similarity index 100%
rename from test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/main.py
rename to test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate.py