diff --git a/runners/google-cloud-dataflow-java/worker/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/runners/dataflow/worker/windmill/client/grpc/StreamingEngineClientTest.java b/runners/google-cloud-dataflow-java/worker/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/runners/dataflow/worker/windmill/client/grpc/StreamingEngineClientTest.java
index 46983a618e4a1..166b2cd0f0318 100644
--- a/runners/google-cloud-dataflow-java/worker/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/runners/dataflow/worker/windmill/client/grpc/StreamingEngineClientTest.java
+++ b/runners/google-cloud-dataflow-java/worker/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/runners/dataflow/worker/windmill/client/grpc/StreamingEngineClientTest.java
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v32_1_2_jre.com.google.common.net.HostAndPort;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.Timeout;
@@ -253,6 +254,7 @@ public void testScheduledBudgetRefresh() throws InterruptedException {
   }
 
   @Test
+  @Ignore("https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/28957") // stuck test
   public void testOnNewWorkerMetadata_correctlyRemovesStaleWindmillServers()
       throws InterruptedException {
     streamingEngineClient =