diff --git a/pkg/testsuites/standard_suites.go b/pkg/testsuites/standard_suites.go
index f7d51800f167..ca3ac75ba408 100644
--- a/pkg/testsuites/standard_suites.go
+++ b/pkg/testsuites/standard_suites.go
@@ -353,6 +353,22 @@ var staticSuites = []ginkgo.TestSuite{
 		// etcd's vertical scaling test can take a while for apiserver rollouts to stabilize on the same revision
 		TestTimeout: 60 * time.Minute,
 	},
+	{
+		Name: "openshift/etcd/disruptive-scaling",
+		Description: templates.LongDesc(`
+		This disruptive test suite covers unhappy-path etcd vertical scaling scenarios and is intended to run separately from the standard etcd scaling suite, which assumes stable cluster operation.
+		Tests in this suite intentionally introduce control plane disruptions, such as stopping the kubelet to render etcd members unhealthy, in order to validate safe and correct scale-down and scale-up behavior.
+		As a result, this suite is disruptive by design.
+	`),
+		Qualifiers: []string{
+			withStandardEarlyOrLateTests(
+				`name.contains("[Suite:openshift/etcd/disruptive-scaling]") && name.contains("[Feature:EtcdVerticalScaling]")`,
+			),
+		},
+		// etcd's vertical scaling test can take a while for apiserver rollouts to stabilize on the same revision
+		TestTimeout:                60 * time.Minute,
+		ClusterStabilityDuringTest: ginkgo.Disruptive,
+	},
 	{
 		Name: "openshift/etcd/recovery",
 		Description: templates.LongDesc(`