diff --git a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
index 7a1f38606062..f77111dca523 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ steps:
 
 - label: V1 Test others # 42min
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  fast_check: true
   mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
   source_file_dependencies:
     - vllm/
diff --git a/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_shared_storage_connector.py b/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_shared_storage_connector.py
index 6be261e45cb0..3151c82a46e3 100644
--- a/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_shared_storage_connector.py
+++ b/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_shared_storage_connector.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 from vllm import LLM, EngineArgs, SamplingParams
 from vllm.assets.image import ImageAsset
 from vllm.config import KVTransferConfig
+from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_transfer_state import (
+    ensure_kv_transfer_shutdown)
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import encode_image_base64
 
 MODEL_NAME = "RedHatAI/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8"
@@ -114,9 +116,12 @@ def process_prompt(processor, llm: LLM, question: str,
 def test_shared_storage_connector_hashes(tmp_path):
     """
     Tests that SharedStorageConnector saves KV to the storage locations
-    with proper hashes; that are unique for inputs with identical text but 
+    with proper hashes; that are unique for inputs with identical text but
     different images (same size), or same multiple images but different orders.
     """
+    # Shutdown the KV transfer process if it is still running
+    ensure_kv_transfer_shutdown()
+
     # Using tmp_path as the storage path to store KV
     print(f"KV storage path at: {str(tmp_path)}")