diff --git a/tests/python/gpu/test_operator_gpu.py b/tests/python/gpu/test_operator_gpu.py
index 99d8d09805e2..8877b5739c1d 100644
--- a/tests/python/gpu/test_operator_gpu.py
+++ b/tests/python/gpu/test_operator_gpu.py
@@ -693,6 +693,7 @@ def test_grid_generator_with_type():
     check_consistency(sym, ctx_list, grad_req="add")
 
 
+@unittest.skip("test fails intermittently. temporarily disabled till it gets fixed.  https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/11839")
 @with_seed()
 def test_spatial_transformer_with_type():
     data = mx.sym.Variable('data')