diff --git a/jest.config.js b/jest.config.js
index f60f269..b99ecff 100644
--- a/jest.config.js
+++ b/jest.config.js
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ module.exports = {
   moduleNameMapper: {
     testHelpers: '<rootDir>/testHelpers/index.js',
   },
-  setupFilesAfterEnv: ['<rootDir>/testHelpers/setup.js'],
   testPathIgnorePatterns: ['/node_modules/'],
   testRunner: 'jest-circus/runner',
   testEnvironment: 'node',
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fbafa43..539291b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@sweet-security/kafkas",
-  "version": "0.1.5",
+  "version": "0.1.6",
   "description": "An kafkajs decorator with cooperative sticky assigner support",
   "main": "index.js",
   "types": "types/index.d.ts",
diff --git a/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/cooperativeStickyAssigner.spec.js b/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/cooperativeStickyAssigner.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da13047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/cooperativeStickyAssigner.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+const {
+  extractTopicPartitions,
+  hasImbalance,
+  unloadOverloadedMembers,
+  getUnassignedPartitions,
+  assignUnassignedPartitions,
+  calculateAvgPartitions,
+} = require('./utils')
+
+describe('CooperativeSticky', () => {
+  const members = [
+    { memberId: 'member0' },
+    { memberId: 'member1' },
+    { memberId: 'member2' },
+    { memberId: 'member3' },
+    { memberId: 'member4' },
+    { memberId: 'member5' },
+  ]
+  const topics = ['topic1', 'topic2', 'topic3']
+  const allTopicsPartitions = {
+    topic1: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
+    topic2: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
+    topic3: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
+  }
+
+  let assignment, topicsPartitions
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    topicsPartitions = topics.flatMap(topic => {
+      const partitionsMetadata = allTopicsPartitions[topic]
+      return partitionsMetadata.map(partitionMetadata => ({
+        topic,
+        partitionId: partitionMetadata,
+      }))
+    })
+
+    assignment = {}
+
+    for (const member of members) {
+      assignment[member.memberId] = {}
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('avgPartitions', async () => {
+    const avgPartitions = calculateAvgPartitions(topicsPartitions.length, members.length)
+    expect(avgPartitions).toEqual(3)
+    expect(hasImbalance(assignment, avgPartitions)).toBeFalsy()
+  })
+
+  it('first assignment no imbalance', async () => {
+    const avgPartitions = calculateAvgPartitions(topicsPartitions.length, members.length)
+    expect(hasImbalance(assignment, avgPartitions)).toBeFalsy()
+  })
+
+  it('first assignment unassigned partitions', async () => {
+    const unassignedPartitions = getUnassignedPartitions(assignment, topicsPartitions)
+    expect(unassignedPartitions).toEqual(topicsPartitions)
+  })
+
+  it('first assignment sanity', async () => {
+    const unassignedPartitions = getUnassignedPartitions(assignment, topicsPartitions)
+    assignUnassignedPartitions(assignment, unassignedPartitions, members)
+    for (const member of members) {
+      expect(assignment[member.memberId]).toBeDefined()
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('first assignment is balanced', async () => {
+    const avgPartitions = calculateAvgPartitions(topicsPartitions.length, members.length)
+    const unassignedPartitions = getUnassignedPartitions(assignment, topicsPartitions)
+    assignUnassignedPartitions(assignment, unassignedPartitions, members)
+    for (const member of members) {
+      const assignedMemberPartitions = assignment[member.memberId]
+      let assignedMemberPartitionsCount = 0
+
+      for (const topic in assignedMemberPartitions) {
+        assignedMemberPartitionsCount += assignedMemberPartitions[topic].length
+      }
+
+      expect(assignedMemberPartitionsCount).toEqual(avgPartitions)
+    }
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/index.js b/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/index.js
index ab80252..af84e2b 100644
--- a/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/index.js
+++ b/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/index.js
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 const { MemberMetadata, MemberAssignment } = require('../../assignerProtocol')
 const {
+  extractTopicPartitions,
+  calculateAvgPartitions,
   hasImbalance,
   unloadOverloadedMembers,
   getUnassignedPartitions,
-  getMemberAssignedPartitionCount,
+  assignUnassignedPartitions,
 } = require('./utils')
-const { minBy } = require('lodash')
 
 /**
  * CooperativeStickyAssigner
@@ -15,7 +16,6 @@ module.exports = ({ cluster }) => ({
   name: 'CooperativeStickyAssigner',
   version: 0,
   async assign({ members, topics, currentAssignment }) {
-    const membersCount = members.length
     const assignment = {}
 
     // // Initialize assignment map for each member
@@ -24,38 +24,17 @@ module.exports = ({ cluster }) => ({
     }
 
     // Step 0: Fetch current partition metadata for topics
-    const topicsPartitions = topics.flatMap(topic => {
-      const partitionsMetadata = cluster.findTopicPartitionMetadata(topic)
-      return partitionsMetadata.map(partitionMetadata => ({
-        topic,
-        partitionId: partitionMetadata.partitionId,
-      }))
-    })
+    const topicsPartitions = extractTopicPartitions(topics, cluster)
 
     // Step 1: Detect imbalance and redistribute partitions if necessary
-    const totalPartitions = topicsPartitions.length
-    const avgPartitions = Math.ceil(totalPartitions / membersCount)
+    const avgPartitions = calculateAvgPartitions(topicsPartitions.length, members.length)
     if (hasImbalance(assignment, avgPartitions)) {
       unloadOverloadedMembers(assignment, avgPartitions)
     }
+
     // Step 2: If not already assigned, distribute using round-robin balancing
     const unassignedPartitions = getUnassignedPartitions(assignment, topicsPartitions)
-    for (const unassignedPartition of unassignedPartitions) {
-      const memberWithLeastPartitions = minBy(members, member =>
-        getMemberAssignedPartitionCount(assignment, member.memberId)
-      )?.memberId
-
-      if (!memberWithLeastPartitions) {
-        continue
-      }
-
-      if (!assignment[memberWithLeastPartitions][unassignedPartition.topic]) {
-        assignment[memberWithLeastPartitions][unassignedPartition.topic] = []
-      }
-      assignment[memberWithLeastPartitions][unassignedPartition.topic].push(
-        unassignedPartition.partitionId
-      )
-    }
+    assignUnassignedPartitions(assignment, unassignedPartitions, members)
 
     return encodeAssignment(assignment, this.version)
   },
diff --git a/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/utils.js b/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/utils.js
index b602d49..121b114 100644
--- a/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/utils.js
+++ b/src/consumer/assigners/cooperativeStickyAssigner/utils.js
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
-const { minBy } = require('lodash')
+const { maxBy, minBy } = require('lodash')
+
+const extractTopicPartitions = (topics, cluster) => {
+  return topics.flatMap(topic => {
+    const partitionsMetadata = cluster.findTopicPartitionMetadata(topic)
+    return partitionsMetadata.map(partitionMetadata => ({
+      topic,
+      partitionId: partitionMetadata.partitionId,
+    }))
+  })
+}
+
+const calculateAvgPartitions = (topicsPartitionsCount, membersCount) => {
+  return Math.ceil(topicsPartitionsCount / membersCount);
+}
+
 const hasImbalance = (assignment, avgPartitions) => {
   return Object.values(assignment).some(
     topicPartitions => Object.values(topicPartitions).flat().length > avgPartitions
@@ -15,8 +30,8 @@ const unloadOverloadedMembers = (assignment, avgPartitions) => {
       let partitionsRemovedCount = 0
 
       while (partitionsRemovedCount < partitionsToRemove) {
-        // Sort by partition count
-        const [topic, partitions] = minBy(Object.entries(assignment[memberId]), [
+        // Find the topic with the largest partition count in the member assignment
+        const [topicWithMostPartitions, partitions] = maxBy(Object.entries(assignment[memberId]), [
           ([_, assignedTopicPartitions]) => assignedTopicPartitions.length,
         ])
 
@@ -24,11 +39,11 @@ const unloadOverloadedMembers = (assignment, avgPartitions) => {
         partitionsRemovedCount++
 
         if (removedPartitionId !== undefined) {
-          removedPartitions.push({ partitionId: removedPartitionId, topic })
+          removedPartitions.push({ partitionId: removedPartitionId, topic: topicWithMostPartitions })
         }
 
         if (partitions.length === 0) {
-          delete assignment[memberId][topic]
+          delete assignment[memberId][topicWithMostPartitions]
         }
       }
     }
@@ -37,6 +52,25 @@ const unloadOverloadedMembers = (assignment, avgPartitions) => {
   return removedPartitions
 }
 
+const assignUnassignedPartitions = (assignment, unassignedPartitions, members) => {
+  for (const unassignedPartition of unassignedPartitions) {
+    const memberWithLeastPartitions = minBy(members, member =>
+      getMemberAssignedPartitionCount(assignment, member.memberId)
+    )?.memberId
+
+    if (!memberWithLeastPartitions) {
+      continue
+    }
+
+    if (!assignment[memberWithLeastPartitions][unassignedPartition.topic]) {
+      assignment[memberWithLeastPartitions][unassignedPartition.topic] = []
+    }
+    assignment[memberWithLeastPartitions][unassignedPartition.topic].push(
+      unassignedPartition.partitionId
+    )
+  }
+}
+
 const getMemberAssignedPartitionCount = (assignment, memberId) => {
   return Object.values(assignment[memberId] || {}).flat().length
 }
@@ -52,8 +86,10 @@ const getUnassignedPartitions = (currentAssignment, topicsPartitions) => {
 }
 
 module.exports = {
+  extractTopicPartitions,
+  calculateAvgPartitions,
   getUnassignedPartitions,
-  getMemberAssignedPartitionCount,
   unloadOverloadedMembers,
   hasImbalance,
+  assignUnassignedPartitions,
 }