Sympy calculation on tan function

I have a problem when simplifying a symbolic expression in sympy when having a trigonometric function and a complex exponent, namely I just assumed a different definition of tan function, and I have a weird thing going on. So I do:

# Deleting variables
from IPython import get_ipython;   
get_ipython().magic('reset -sf')

import sympy as sym;

# defining variables
test1 = sym.Symbol('test');
test2 = sym.Symbol('test2');
a = sym.Symbol('a');

# Defining tests
test1 = sym.tan(a) + sym.I*(sym.exp(sym.I*a)-sym.exp(-sym.I*a))/(sym.exp(sym.I*a)+sym.exp(-sym.I*a));
test2 = sym.I*(sym.exp(sym.I*a)-sym.exp(-sym.I*a))/(sym.exp(sym.I*a)+sym.exp(-sym.I*a));

Symbolic variable sym.simplify(test2) is equal to -tan(a) and normaly test1 variable should be equal to 0, however when I simplify a test1 variable, I do get:

sym.simplify(test1)
Out[140]: 
(-I*(1 - exp(2*I*a)) + (exp(2*I*a) + 1)*tan(a))/(exp(2*I*a) + 1)

So the question is what do I get wrong, how to tell Python to simplify a text1 expression in order to get 0 which it naturally should be

Answer

Rewriting in terms of exp then simplifying gives 0

test1.rewrite(sym.exp).simplify()

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