diff --git a/ci/test_thirdparty.sh b/ci/test_thirdparty.sh
index 5c762bce9..6f595cf98 100755
--- a/ci/test_thirdparty.sh
+++ b/ci/test_thirdparty.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 CUDA_VER_MAJOR_MINOR=${CUDA_VER%.*}
 
+rapids-logger "Install cuDF Wheel"
+pip install \
+    --extra-index-url=https://pypi.nvidia.com \
+    "cudf-cu12==25.6.*"
+
+
+rapids-logger "Remove Extraneous numba-cuda"
+pip uninstall -y numba-cuda
+
 rapids-logger "Install wheel with test dependencies"
 package=$(realpath wheel/numba_cuda*.whl)
 echo "Package path: ${package}"
@@ -12,13 +21,9 @@ python -m pip install \
     "${package}[test]" \
     "cuda-python==${CUDA_VER_MAJOR_MINOR%.*}.*" \
     "cuda-core==0.3.*" \
+    "nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12" \
 
 
-rapids-logger "Install cuDF Wheel"
-pip install \
-    --extra-index-url=https://pypi.nvidia.com \
-    "cudf-cu12==25.6.*"
-
 rapids-logger "Shallow clone cuDF repository"
 git clone --single-branch --branch 'branch-25.06' https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf.git
 
@@ -32,9 +37,9 @@ rapids-logger "Show Numba system info"
 python -m numba --sysinfo
 
 rapids-logger "Run Scalar UDF tests"
-py.test python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_udf_masked_ops.py
+python -m pytest python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_udf_masked_ops.py -W ignore::UserWarning
 
 rapids-logger "Run GroupBy UDF tests"
-py.test python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_groupby.py -k test_groupby_apply_jit
+python -m pytest python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_groupby.py -k test_groupby_apply_jit -W ignore::UserWarning
 
 popd