diff --git a/benchmark.js b/benchmark.js
index 489d14d..ca1a22c 100644
--- a/benchmark.js
+++ b/benchmark.js
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-import { createReadStream, createWriteStream, promises as fs } from 'fs'
+import { createWriteStream, promises as fs } from 'fs'
 import { compressors } from 'hyparquet-compressors'
 import { pipeline } from 'stream/promises'
 import { parquetRead } from './src/hyparquet.js'
+import { asyncBufferFromFile } from './src/utils.js'
 
 const url = 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikimedia/wikipedia/resolve/main/20231101.en/train-00000-of-00041.parquet'
 const filename = 'example.parquet'
@@ -19,14 +20,7 @@ if (!stat) {
 }
 
 // asyncBuffer
-const file = {
-  byteLength: stat.size,
-  async slice(start, end) {
-    // read file slice
-    const readStream = createReadStream(filename, { start, end })
-    return await readStreamToArrayBuffer(readStream)
-  },
-}
+const file = await asyncBufferFromFile(filename)
 const startTime = performance.now()
 console.log('parsing example.parquet data...')
 
@@ -37,21 +31,3 @@ await parquetRead({
 })
 const ms = performance.now() - startTime
 console.log(`parsed ${stat.size.toLocaleString()} bytes in ${ms.toFixed(0)} ms`)
-
-/**
- * Convert a web ReadableStream to ArrayBuffer.
- *
- * @param {ReadStream} input
- * @returns {Promise<ArrayBuffer>}
- */
-function readStreamToArrayBuffer(input) {
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const chunks = []
-    input.on('data', chunk => chunks.push(chunk))
-    input.on('end', () => {
-      const buffer = Buffer.concat(chunks)
-      resolve(buffer.buffer.slice(buffer.byteOffset, buffer.byteOffset + buffer.byteLength))
-    })
-    input.on('error', reject)
-  })
-}
diff --git a/src/utils.js b/src/utils.js
index 55f057f..c839143 100644
--- a/src/utils.js
+++ b/src/utils.js
@@ -65,3 +65,41 @@ export async function asyncBufferFromUrl(url) {
     },
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Construct an AsyncBuffer for a local file using node fs package.
+ *
+ * @param {string} filename
+ * @returns {Promise<AsyncBuffer>}
+ */
+export async function asyncBufferFromFile(filename) {
+  const fs = await import('fs')
+  const stat = await fs.promises.stat(filename)
+  return {
+    byteLength: stat.size,
+    async slice(start, end) {
+      // read file slice
+      const readStream = fs.createReadStream(filename, { start, end })
+      return await readStreamToArrayBuffer(readStream)
+    },
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convert a node ReadStream to ArrayBuffer.
+ *
+ * @param {import('stream').Readable} input
+ * @returns {Promise<ArrayBuffer>}
+ */
+function readStreamToArrayBuffer(input) {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    /** @type {Buffer[]} */
+    const chunks = []
+    input.on('data', chunk => chunks.push(chunk))
+    input.on('end', () => {
+      const buffer = Buffer.concat(chunks)
+      resolve(buffer.buffer.slice(buffer.byteOffset, buffer.byteOffset + buffer.byteLength))
+    })
+    input.on('error', reject)
+  })
+}
diff --git a/test/helpers.js b/test/helpers.js
index fb575fb..85fe9a3 100644
--- a/test/helpers.js
+++ b/test/helpers.js
@@ -1,29 +1,5 @@
 import fs from 'fs'
 
-/**
- * Helper function to read .parquet file into ArrayBuffer
- *
- * @param {string} filePath
- * @returns {Promise<ArrayBuffer>}
- */
-export async function readFileToArrayBuffer(filePath) {
-  const buffer = await fs.promises.readFile(filePath)
-  return buffer.buffer.slice(buffer.byteOffset, buffer.byteOffset + buffer.byteLength)
-}
-
-/**
- * Wrap .parquet file in an AsyncBuffer
- *
- * @param {string} filePath
- * @returns {import('../src/types.js').AsyncBuffer}
- */
-export function fileToAsyncBuffer(filePath) {
-  return {
-    byteLength: fs.statSync(filePath).size,
-    slice: async (start, end) => (await readFileToArrayBuffer(filePath)).slice(start, end),
-  }
-}
-
 /**
  * Read .parquet file into JSON
  *
diff --git a/test/metadata.test.js b/test/metadata.test.js
index fb5aa5a..56049a9 100644
--- a/test/metadata.test.js
+++ b/test/metadata.test.js
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 import fs from 'fs'
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import { parquetMetadata, parquetMetadataAsync } from '../src/hyparquet.js'
-import { toJson } from '../src/utils.js'
-import { fileToAsyncBuffer, fileToJson, readFileToArrayBuffer } from './helpers.js'
+import { asyncBufferFromFile, toJson } from '../src/utils.js'
+import { fileToJson } from './helpers.js'
 
 const files = fs.readdirSync('test/files').filter(f => f.endsWith('.parquet'))
 
 describe('parquetMetadata', () => {
   files.forEach(file => {
     it(`parse metadata from ${file}`, async () => {
-      const arrayBuffer = await readFileToArrayBuffer(`test/files/${file}`)
+      const asyncBuffer = await asyncBufferFromFile(`test/files/${file}`)
+      const arrayBuffer = await asyncBuffer.slice(0)
       const result = toJson(parquetMetadata(arrayBuffer))
       const base = file.replace('.parquet', '')
       const expected = fileToJson(`test/files/${base}.metadata.json`)
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ describe('parquetMetadata', () => {
 describe('parquetMetadataAsync', () => {
   files.forEach(file => {
     it(`parse metadata async from ${file}`, async () => {
-      const asyncBuffer = fileToAsyncBuffer(`test/files/${file}`)
+      const asyncBuffer = await asyncBufferFromFile(`test/files/${file}`)
       const result = await parquetMetadataAsync(asyncBuffer)
       const base = file.replace('.parquet', '')
       const expected = fileToJson(`test/files/${base}.metadata.json`)
diff --git a/test/read.test.js b/test/read.test.js
index 6d1b472..82ff09d 100644
--- a/test/read.test.js
+++ b/test/read.test.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import { parquetRead } from '../src/hyparquet.js'
-import { toJson } from '../src/utils.js'
-import { fileToAsyncBuffer } from './helpers.js'
+import { asyncBufferFromFile, toJson } from '../src/utils.js'
 
 describe('parquetRead', () => {
   it('throws error for undefined file', async () => {
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ describe('parquetRead', () => {
   })
 
   it('filter by row', async () => {
-    const file = fileToAsyncBuffer('test/files/rowgroups.parquet')
+    const file = await asyncBufferFromFile('test/files/rowgroups.parquet')
     await parquetRead({
       file,
       rowStart: 2,
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@ describe('parquetRead', () => {
   })
 
   it('filter by row overestimate', async () => {
-    const file = fileToAsyncBuffer('test/files/rowgroups.parquet')
+    const file = await asyncBufferFromFile('test/files/rowgroups.parquet')
     await parquetRead({
       file,
       rowEnd: 100,
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ describe('parquetRead', () => {
   })
 
   it('read a single column', async () => {
-    const file = fileToAsyncBuffer('test/files/datapage_v2.snappy.parquet')
+    const file = await asyncBufferFromFile('test/files/datapage_v2.snappy.parquet')
     await parquetRead({
       file,
       columns: ['c'],
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ describe('parquetRead', () => {
   })
 
   it('read a list-like column', async () => {
-    const file = fileToAsyncBuffer('test/files/datapage_v2.snappy.parquet')
+    const file = await asyncBufferFromFile('test/files/datapage_v2.snappy.parquet')
     await parquetRead({
       file,
       columns: ['e'],
@@ -91,7 +90,7 @@ describe('parquetRead', () => {
   })
 
   it('read a map-like column', async () => {
-    const file = fileToAsyncBuffer('test/files/nullable.impala.parquet')
+    const file = await asyncBufferFromFile('test/files/nullable.impala.parquet')
     await parquetRead({
       file,
       columns: ['int_map'],
diff --git a/test/readFiles.test.js b/test/readFiles.test.js
index 688a2e5..5dc0e02 100644
--- a/test/readFiles.test.js
+++ b/test/readFiles.test.js
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ import fs from 'fs'
 import { compressors } from 'hyparquet-compressors'
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import { parquetRead } from '../src/hyparquet.js'
-import { toJson } from '../src/utils.js'
-import { fileToAsyncBuffer, fileToJson } from './helpers.js'
+import { asyncBufferFromFile, toJson } from '../src/utils.js'
+import { fileToJson } from './helpers.js'
 
 describe('parquetRead test files', () => {
   const files = fs.readdirSync('test/files').filter(f => f.endsWith('.parquet'))
 
   files.forEach(filename => {
     it(`parse data from ${filename}`, async () => {
-      const file = fileToAsyncBuffer(`test/files/${filename}`)
+      const file = await asyncBufferFromFile(`test/files/${filename}`)
       await parquetRead({
         file,
         compressors,
diff --git a/test/schemaTree.test.js b/test/schemaTree.test.js
index 0ccadec..4189314 100644
--- a/test/schemaTree.test.js
+++ b/test/schemaTree.test.js
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
-import { parquetMetadata, parquetSchema } from '../src/hyparquet.js'
-import { readFileToArrayBuffer } from './helpers.js'
+import { parquetMetadataAsync, parquetSchema } from '../src/hyparquet.js'
+import { asyncBufferFromFile } from '../src/utils.js'
 
 describe('parquetSchema', () => {
   it('parse schema tree from rowgroups.parquet', async () => {
-    const arrayBuffer = await readFileToArrayBuffer('test/files/rowgroups.parquet')
-    const metadata = parquetMetadata(arrayBuffer)
+    const arrayBuffer = await asyncBufferFromFile('test/files/rowgroups.parquet')
+    const metadata = await parquetMetadataAsync(arrayBuffer)
     const result = parquetSchema(metadata)
     expect(result).toEqual(rowgroupsSchema)
   })