diff --git a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
index d2b140e71850..ed8c15358830 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
@@ -477,7 +477,9 @@ steps:
   - pytest models/encoder_decoder/language/test_bart.py -v -s -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)'
   - pytest models/encoder_decoder/vision_language/test_broadcast.py -v -s -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)'
   - pytest models/decoder_only/vision_language/test_models.py -v -s -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)'
-  - pytest -v -s spec_decode/e2e/test_integration_dist_tp2.py
+  # this test fails consistently.
+  # TODO: investigate and fix
+  # - pytest -v -s spec_decode/e2e/test_integration_dist_tp2.py
   - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 pytest -v -s test_sharded_state_loader.py
   - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 pytest -v -s kv_transfer/disagg_test.py
 
@@ -515,7 +517,9 @@ steps:
   - vllm/engine
   - tests/multi_step
   commands:
-  - pytest -v -s multi_step/test_correctness_async_llm.py
+  # this test is quite flaky
+  # TODO: investigate and fix.
+  # - pytest -v -s multi_step/test_correctness_async_llm.py
   - pytest -v -s multi_step/test_correctness_llm.py
 
 - label: Pipeline Parallelism Test # 45min