diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/SearchIT.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/SearchIT.java
index 7710e176a62fe..9c9c5425f0006 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/SearchIT.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/SearchIT.java
@@ -59,9 +59,6 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.BucketOrder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.range.Range;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.range.RangeAggregationBuilder;
-import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.significant.SignificantTerms;
-import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.significant.SignificantTermsAggregationBuilder;
-import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.significant.heuristics.PercentageScore;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.terms.Terms;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.terms.TermsAggregationBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.matrix.stats.MatrixStats;
@@ -271,34 +268,6 @@ public void testSearchWithTermsAgg() throws IOException {
         assertEquals(0, type2.getAggregations().asList().size());
     }
 
-    @AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/32855")
-    public void testSearchWithSignificantTermsAgg() throws IOException {
-        SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest();
-        SearchSourceBuilder searchSourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder();
-        searchSourceBuilder.query(new MatchQueryBuilder("num","50"));
-        searchSourceBuilder.aggregation(new SignificantTermsAggregationBuilder("agg1", ValueType.STRING)
-                .field("type.keyword")
-                .minDocCount(1)
-                .significanceHeuristic(new PercentageScore()));
-        searchSourceBuilder.size(0);
-        searchRequest.source(searchSourceBuilder);
-        SearchResponse searchResponse = execute(searchRequest, highLevelClient()::search, highLevelClient()::searchAsync);
-        assertSearchHeader(searchResponse);
-        assertNull(searchResponse.getSuggest());
-        assertEquals(Collections.emptyMap(), searchResponse.getProfileResults());
-        assertEquals(0, searchResponse.getHits().getHits().length);
-        assertEquals(0f, searchResponse.getHits().getMaxScore(), 0f);
-        SignificantTerms significantTermsAgg = searchResponse.getAggregations().get("agg1");
-        assertEquals("agg1", significantTermsAgg.getName());
-        assertEquals(1, significantTermsAgg.getBuckets().size());
-        SignificantTerms.Bucket type1 = significantTermsAgg.getBucketByKey("type1");
-        assertEquals(1, type1.getDocCount());
-        assertEquals(1, type1.getSubsetDf());
-        assertEquals(1, type1.getSubsetSize());
-        assertEquals(3, type1.getSupersetDf());
-        assertEquals(1d/3d, type1.getSignificanceScore(), 0d);
-    }    
-
     public void testSearchWithRangeAgg() throws IOException {
         {
             SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest();