diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d0722c7921..a6c4584cfc 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ pylint:
   script:
     - pylint --rcfile $CI_PROJECT_DIR/.pylintrc $(git ls-files '*.py' | grep -vE '(ans\.py|dangerfile\.py|^bin/tests/system/|^contrib/)')
       # Ignore Pylint wrong-import-position error in system test to enable use of pytest.importorskip
-    - pylint --rcfile $CI_PROJECT_DIR/.pylintrc --disable=wrong-import-position $(git ls-files 'bin/tests/system/*.py' | grep -vE 'ans\.py')
+    - pylint --rcfile $CI_PROJECT_DIR/.pylintrc --disable=wrong-import-position $(git ls-files 'bin/tests/system/*.py' | grep -vE '(ans\.py|vulture_ignore_list\.py)')
 
 reuse:
   <<: *precheck_job
diff --git a/bin/tests/system/cipher-suites/tests_cipher_suites.py b/bin/tests/system/cipher-suites/tests_cipher_suites.py
index 255fc326ac..1be3aafbbc 100644
--- a/bin/tests/system/cipher-suites/tests_cipher_suites.py
+++ b/bin/tests/system/cipher-suites/tests_cipher_suites.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 # See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional
 # information regarding copyright ownership.
 
+import re
+
 import pytest
 
 pytest.importorskip("dns", minversion="2.5.0")
@@ -26,6 +28,17 @@ pytestmark = pytest.mark.extra_artifacts(
 )
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def transfers_complete(servers):
+    for zone in ["example", "example-aes-128", "example-aes-256", "example-chacha-20"]:
+        pattern = re.compile(
+            f"transfer of '{zone}/IN' from 10.53.0.1#[0-9]+: Transfer completed"
+        )
+        for ns in ["ns2", "ns3", "ns4", "ns5"]:
+            with servers[ns].watch_log_from_start() as watcher:
+                watcher.wait_for_line(pattern)
+
+
 @pytest.mark.requires_zones_loaded("ns1", "ns2", "ns3", "ns4", "ns5")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "qname,ns,rcode",
@@ -69,7 +82,8 @@ pytestmark = pytest.mark.extra_artifacts(
         ),
     ],
 )
-def test_cipher_suites_tls_xfer(qname, ns, rcode):
+# pylint: disable=redefined-outer-name,unused-argument
+def test_cipher_suites_tls_xfer(qname, ns, rcode, transfers_complete):
     msg = dns.message.make_query(qname, "AXFR")
     ans = isctest.query.tls(msg, f"10.53.0.{ns}")
     assert ans.rcode() == rcode
diff --git a/bin/tests/system/vulture_ignore_list.py b/bin/tests/system/vulture_ignore_list.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7682a478e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/tests/system/vulture_ignore_list.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0.  If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+# See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional
+# information regarding copyright ownership.
+
+transfers_complete  # unused function (cipher-suites/tests_cipher_suites.py:31)
+transfers_complete  # unused variable (cipher-suites/tests_cipher_suites.py:86)