diff --git a/instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/javaagent/src/test/groovy/SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest.groovy b/instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/javaagent/src/test/groovy/SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest.groovy
index 7c4c7b8ae1cb..3cef9e6bbc65 100644
--- a/instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/javaagent/src/test/groovy/SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest.groovy
+++ b/instrumentation/spring/spring-kafka-2.7/javaagent/src/test/groovy/SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest.groovy
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ import io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.testing.GlobalTraceUtil
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.data.SpanData
 import io.opentelemetry.semconv.trace.attributes.SemanticAttributes
 import java.time.Duration
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.NewTopic
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerRecord
 import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication
@@ -64,12 +67,28 @@ class SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
     def kafkaTemplate = applicationContext.getBean("kafkaTemplate", KafkaTemplate)
 
     when:
-    runWithSpan("producer") {
-      // wrapping in a transaction is needed to remove the possibility of messages being picked up separately by the consumer
-      kafkaTemplate.executeInTransaction({ ops ->
-        ops.send("testTopic", "10", "testSpan1")
-        ops.send("testTopic", "20", "testSpan2")
-      })
+    // This test assumes that messages are sent and received as a batch. Occasionally it happens
+    // that the messages are not received as a batch, but one by one. This doesn't match what the
+    // assertion expects. To reduce flakiness we retry the test when messages weren't received as
+    // a batch.
+    def maxAttempts = 5
+    for (i in 1..maxAttempts) {
+      Listener.reset()
+
+      runWithSpan("producer") {
+        kafkaTemplate.executeInTransaction({ ops ->
+          ops.send("testTopic", "10", "testSpan1")
+          ops.send("testTopic", "20", "testSpan2")
+        })
+      }
+
+      Listener.waitForMessages()
+      if (Listener.getLastBatchSize() == 2) {
+        break
+      } else if (i < maxAttempts) {
+        ignoreTracesAndClear(2)
+        System.err.println("Messages weren't received as batch, retrying")
+      }
     }
 
     then:
@@ -242,9 +261,16 @@ class SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
   }
 
   static class Listener {
+    static AtomicInteger lastBatchSize = new AtomicInteger()
+    static CountDownLatch messageReceived = new CountDownLatch(2)
 
     @KafkaListener(id = "testListener", topics = "testTopic", containerFactory = "batchFactory")
     void listener(List<ConsumerRecord<String, String>> records) {
+      lastBatchSize.set(records.size())
+      records.size().times {
+        messageReceived.countDown()
+      }
+
       GlobalTraceUtil.runWithSpan("consumer") {}
       records.forEach({ record ->
         if (record.value() == "error") {
@@ -252,5 +278,18 @@ class SpringKafkaInstrumentationTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
         }
       })
     }
+
+    static void reset() {
+      messageReceived = new CountDownLatch(2)
+      lastBatchSize.set(0)
+    }
+
+    static void waitForMessages() {
+      messageReceived.await(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
+    }
+
+    static int getLastBatchSize() {
+      return lastBatchSize.get()
+    }
   }
 }