diff --git a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/basic/SearchWithRandomExceptionsTests.java b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/basic/SearchWithRandomExceptionsTests.java
index 75a129571736d..a79e759f0447b 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/basic/SearchWithRandomExceptionsTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/basic/SearchWithRandomExceptionsTests.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.search.basic;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.util.English;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase.AwaitsFix;
 import org.elasticsearch.AbstractSharedClusterTest;
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticSearchException;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.Requests;
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@
 public class SearchWithRandomExceptionsTests extends AbstractSharedClusterTest {
     
     @Test
+    @AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/3694")
     public void testRandomExceptions() throws IOException, InterruptedException, ExecutionException {
         final int numShards = between(1, 5);
         String mapping = XContentFactory.jsonBuilder().