diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d7e1afb421..89ffec54be 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 - Improve test coverage of sync.py
 - `check_up_to_date()` function from `modules_json` also checks for subworkflows.
 - The default branch can now be specified when creating a new pipeline repo [#1959](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1959).
+- Add file `versions.yml` when generating `test.yml` with `nf-core modules create-test-yml` but don't check for md5sum [#1963](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1963)
 
 ### Modules
 
diff --git a/nf_core/modules/test_yml_builder.py b/nf_core/modules/test_yml_builder.py
index c6ba65f161..23d7cc0e31 100644
--- a/nf_core/modules/test_yml_builder.py
+++ b/nf_core/modules/test_yml_builder.py
@@ -232,9 +232,6 @@ def create_test_file_dict(self, results_dir, is_repeat=False):
         test_files = []
         for root, _, files in os.walk(results_dir, followlinks=True):
             for filename in files:
-                # Check that the file is not versions.yml
-                if filename == "versions.yml":
-                    continue
                 file_path = os.path.join(root, filename)
                 # add the key here so that it comes first in the dict
                 test_file = {"path": file_path}
@@ -245,8 +242,10 @@ def create_test_file_dict(self, results_dir, is_repeat=False):
                 # Add the md5 anyway, linting should fail later and can be manually removed if needed.
                 #  Originally we skipped this if empty, but then it's too easy to miss the warning.
                 #  Equally, if a file is legitimately empty we don't want to prevent this from working.
-                file_md5 = self._md5(file_path)
-                test_file["md5sum"] = file_md5
+                if filename != "versions.yml":
+                    # Only add md5sum if the file is not versions.yml
+                    file_md5 = self._md5(file_path)
+                    test_file["md5sum"] = file_md5
                 # Switch out the results directory path with the expected 'output' directory
                 test_file["path"] = file_path.replace(results_dir, "output")
                 test_files.append(test_file)