diff --git a/.buildkite/test-nightly.yml b/.buildkite/test-nightly.yml
index 8f141576d..001c46645 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test-nightly.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/test-nightly.yml
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ steps:
     if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"
     commands:
       - |
+        huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice
         export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
         pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts.py::TestQwen3TTSNoAsyncChunk
     agents:
diff --git a/.buildkite/test-ready.yml b/.buildkite/test-ready.yml
index 6c1b458b8..092d6f11a 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test-ready.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/test-ready.yml
@@ -214,9 +214,10 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - |
         timeout 20m bash -c '
+          huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice
           export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
           export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-          pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts.py
+          pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts.py -k "not NoAsyncChunk"
         '
     agents:
       queue: "gpu_4_queue"