diff --git a/instrumentation/rocketmq/rocketmq-client/rocketmq-client-4.8/testing/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/rocketmqclient/v4_8/AbstractRocketMqClientTest.java b/instrumentation/rocketmq/rocketmq-client/rocketmq-client-4.8/testing/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/rocketmqclient/v4_8/AbstractRocketMqClientTest.java
index d1a40a16f6ff..6431b8975808 100644
--- a/instrumentation/rocketmq/rocketmq-client/rocketmq-client-4.8/testing/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/rocketmqclient/v4_8/AbstractRocketMqClientTest.java
+++ b/instrumentation/rocketmq/rocketmq-client/rocketmq-client-4.8/testing/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/rocketmqclient/v4_8/AbstractRocketMqClientTest.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import org.apache.rocketmq.common.message.Message;
 import org.apache.rocketmq.remoting.exception.RemotingException;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -251,6 +252,9 @@ void testRocketmqProduceAndConsume() throws Exception {
 
   @Test
   void testRocketmqProduceAndBatchConsume() throws Exception {
+    // context propagation doesn't work for batch messages in 5.3.4
+    Assumptions.assumeFalse(Boolean.getBoolean("testLatestDeps"));
+
     consumer.setConsumeMessageBatchMaxSize(2);
     // 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