diff --git a/integration-tests/build.gradle.kts b/integration-tests/build.gradle.kts
index 2ef897d13f..5a621a0251 100644
--- a/integration-tests/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/integration-tests/build.gradle.kts
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ dependencies {
   implementation("org.testcontainers:testcontainers")
   implementation(libs.s3mock.testcontainers)
 
+  implementation(platform(libs.awssdk.bom))
+  implementation("software.amazon.awssdk:s3")
+
   implementation("org.apache.iceberg:iceberg-spark-3.5_2.12")
   implementation("org.apache.iceberg:iceberg-spark-extensions-3.5_2.12")
   implementation("org.apache.spark:spark-sql_2.12:3.5.6") {
diff --git a/integration-tests/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/service/it/ext/PolarisSparkIntegrationTestBase.java b/integration-tests/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/service/it/ext/PolarisSparkIntegrationTestBase.java
index 9ab63aa503..d99089179c 100644
--- a/integration-tests/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/service/it/ext/PolarisSparkIntegrationTestBase.java
+++ b/integration-tests/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/service/it/ext/PolarisSparkIntegrationTestBase.java
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsBasicCredentials;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StaticCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.HeadObjectRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.NoSuchKeyException;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.S3Exception;
 
 @ExtendWith(PolarisIntegrationTestExtension.class)
 public abstract class PolarisSparkIntegrationTestBase {
@@ -64,6 +71,7 @@ public abstract class PolarisSparkIntegrationTestBase {
   protected String externalCatalogName;
 
   protected URI warehouseDir;
+  protected S3Client s3Client;
 
   @BeforeAll
   public static void setup() throws IOException {
@@ -84,6 +92,16 @@ public void before(
     managementApi = client.managementApi(credentials);
     catalogApi = client.catalogApi(credentials);
 
+    s3Client =
+        S3Client.builder()
+            .endpointOverride(URI.create(s3Container.getHttpEndpoint()))
+            .credentialsProvider(
+                StaticCredentialsProvider.create(
+                    AwsBasicCredentials.create("accessKey", "secretKey")))
+            .region(Region.of("us-west-2"))
+            .forcePathStyle(true) // Required for S3Mock
+            .build();
+
     warehouseDir = IntegrationTestsHelper.getTemporaryDirectory(tempDir).resolve("spark-warehouse");
 
     catalogName = client.newEntityName("spark_catalog");
@@ -236,4 +254,15 @@ protected void cleanupCatalog(String catalogName) {
   protected static Dataset<Row> onSpark(@Language("SQL") String sql) {
     return spark.sql(sql);
   }
+
+  protected boolean fileExists(String key) {
+    try {
+      s3Client.headObject(HeadObjectRequest.builder().bucket("my-bucket").key(key).build());
+      return true; // File exists
+    } catch (NoSuchKeyException e) {
+      return false; // File does not exist
+    } catch (S3Exception e) { // Handle other S3-related exceptions
+      throw e;
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/integration-tests/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/service/it/test/PolarisSparkIntegrationTest.java b/integration-tests/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/service/it/test/PolarisSparkIntegrationTest.java
index 2bdd109281..8817ca24d3 100644
--- a/integration-tests/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/service/it/test/PolarisSparkIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/integration-tests/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/service/it/test/PolarisSparkIntegrationTest.java
@@ -133,6 +133,33 @@ public void testCreateAndUpdateExternalTable() {
     assertThat(rowCount).isEqualTo(4);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testPurgeTable() {
+    onSpark("CREATE NAMESPACE ns1");
+    onSpark("USE ns1");
+    onSpark("CREATE TABLE tb1 (col1 integer, col2 string)");
+    onSpark("INSERT INTO tb1 VALUES (1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c'), (5, 'e')");
+
+    LoadTableResponse tableResponse = loadTable(catalogName, "ns1", "tb1");
+    String filePath = tableResponse.metadataLocation().replaceFirst("^s3://my-bucket/", "");
+    assertThat(fileExists(filePath)).isTrue();
+
+    // Drop table with purge
+    // dropTable(catalogName, "ns1", "tb1", true);
+    onSpark("DROP TABLE tb1 purge");
+    // verify the metadata file is eventually purged
+    int attempt = 0;
+    while (fileExists(filePath) && attempt < 5) {
+      try {
+        Thread.sleep(1000);
+        attempt += 1;
+      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+        throw new RuntimeException(e);
+      }
+    }
+    assertThat(fileExists(filePath)).isFalse();
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testCreateView() {
     long namespaceCount = onSpark("SHOW NAMESPACES").count();