diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java
index 25b0c9e00cb7d..3d009d58b0def 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 import com.carrotsearch.hppc.cursors.ObjectObjectCursor;
 import com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting.generators.RandomNumbers;
+
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Level;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
@@ -5295,6 +5296,7 @@ private void assertOperationHistoryInLucene(List<Engine.Operation> operations) t
         }
     }
 
+    @AwaitsFix(bugUrl="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/38285")
     public void testKeepMinRetainedSeqNoByMergePolicy() throws IOException {
         IOUtils.close(engine, store);
         Settings.Builder settings = Settings.builder()