This paper proposes a goodness of fit test for the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD). Firstly, we provide two characterizations of GPD based on Stein's identity and dynamic survival extropy. These characterizations are used to test GPD separately for the positive and negative shape parameter cases. A Monte Carlo simulation is conducted to provide the critical values and power of the proposed test against a good number of alternatives. Our test is simple to use and it has asymptotic normality and relatively high power, which strengthened the purpose of proposing it. Considering the case of right censored data, we provide the procedure to handle censored case too. A few real-life applications are also included.