diff --git a/tests/v1/tracing/test_tracing.py b/tests/v1/tracing/test_tracing.py
index 2b450a6299..1b7b243c9d 100644
--- a/tests/v1/tracing/test_tracing.py
+++ b/tests/v1/tracing/test_tracing.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import time
 from opentelemetry.sdk.environment_variables import OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_INSECURE
 
 from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
+from vllm.distributed import cleanup_dist_env_and_memory
+from vllm.platforms import current_platform
 from vllm.tracing import SpanAttributes
 
 # Import shared fixtures from the tracing conftest
@@ -23,6 +25,11 @@ def test_traces(
 ):
     with monkeypatch.context() as m:
         m.setenv(OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_INSECURE, "true")
+        if current_platform.is_rocm():
+            # The fake OTLP server starts gRPC worker threads before the engine
+            # core is launched. On ROCm CI, forking while those threads are
+            # active can segfault in gRPC during engine startup or teardown.
+            m.setenv("VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD", "spawn")
 
         sampling_params = SamplingParams(
             temperature=0.01,
@@ -30,58 +37,70 @@ def test_traces(
             max_tokens=256,
         )
         model = "facebook/opt-125m"
-        llm = LLM(
-            model=model,
-            otlp_traces_endpoint=FAKE_TRACE_SERVER_ADDRESS,
-            gpu_memory_utilization=0.3,
-            disable_log_stats=False,
-        )
-        prompts = ["This is a short prompt"]
-        outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params=sampling_params)
-        print(f"test_traces outputs is : {outputs}")
+        llm = None
+        try:
+            llm = LLM(
+                model=model,
+                otlp_traces_endpoint=FAKE_TRACE_SERVER_ADDRESS,
+                gpu_memory_utilization=0.3,
+                disable_log_stats=False,
+            )
+            prompts = ["This is a short prompt"]
+            outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params=sampling_params)
+            print(f"test_traces outputs is : {outputs}")
 
-        # Wait for the "llm_request" span to be exported.
-        # The BatchSpanProcessor batches spans and exports them periodically,
-        # so we need to wait specifically for the llm_request span to appear.
-        timeout = 15
-        deadline = time.time() + timeout
-        llm_request_spans = []
-        while time.time() < deadline:
-            all_spans = trace_service.get_all_spans()
-            llm_request_spans = [s for s in all_spans if s["name"] == "llm_request"]
-            if llm_request_spans:
-                break
-            time.sleep(0.5)
+            # Wait for the "llm_request" span to be exported.
+            # The BatchSpanProcessor batches spans and exports them periodically,
+            # so we need to wait specifically for the llm_request span to appear.
+            timeout = 15
+            deadline = time.time() + timeout
+            llm_request_spans = []
+            while time.time() < deadline:
+                all_spans = trace_service.get_all_spans()
+                llm_request_spans = [s for s in all_spans if s["name"] == "llm_request"]
+                if llm_request_spans:
+                    break
+                time.sleep(0.5)
 
-        assert len(llm_request_spans) == 1, (
-            f"Expected exactly 1 'llm_request' span, but got {len(llm_request_spans)}. "
-            f"All span names: {[s['name'] for s in all_spans]}"
-        )
+            assert len(llm_request_spans) == 1, (
+                f"Expected exactly 1 'llm_request' span, but got "
+                f"{len(llm_request_spans)}. "
+                f"All span names: {[s['name'] for s in all_spans]}"
+            )
 
-        attributes = llm_request_spans[0]["attributes"]
-        # assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_RESPONSE_MODEL) == model
-        assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_ID) == outputs[0].request_id
-        assert (
-            attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_TEMPERATURE)
-            == sampling_params.temperature
-        )
-        assert (
-            attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_TOP_P) == sampling_params.top_p
-        )
-        assert (
-            attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_MAX_TOKENS)
-            == sampling_params.max_tokens
-        )
-        assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_N) == sampling_params.n
-        assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_USAGE_PROMPT_TOKENS) == len(
-            outputs[0].prompt_token_ids
-        )
-        completion_tokens = sum(len(o.token_ids) for o in outputs[0].outputs)
-        assert (
-            attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_USAGE_COMPLETION_TOKENS)
-            == completion_tokens
-        )
+            attributes = llm_request_spans[0]["attributes"]
+            # assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_RESPONSE_MODEL) == model
+            assert (
+                attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_ID)
+                == outputs[0].request_id
+            )
+            assert (
+                attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_TEMPERATURE)
+                == sampling_params.temperature
+            )
+            assert (
+                attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_TOP_P)
+                == sampling_params.top_p
+            )
+            assert (
+                attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_MAX_TOKENS)
+                == sampling_params.max_tokens
+            )
+            assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_N) == sampling_params.n
+            assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_USAGE_PROMPT_TOKENS) == len(
+                outputs[0].prompt_token_ids
+            )
+            completion_tokens = sum(len(o.token_ids) for o in outputs[0].outputs)
+            assert (
+                attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_USAGE_COMPLETION_TOKENS)
+                == completion_tokens
+            )
 
-        assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_LATENCY_TIME_IN_QUEUE) > 0
-        assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_LATENCY_TIME_TO_FIRST_TOKEN) > 0
-        assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_LATENCY_E2E) > 0
+            assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_LATENCY_TIME_IN_QUEUE) > 0
+            assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_LATENCY_TIME_TO_FIRST_TOKEN) > 0
+            assert attributes.get(SpanAttributes.GEN_AI_LATENCY_E2E) > 0
+        finally:
+            if llm is not None:
+                shutdown_timeout = 60.0 if current_platform.is_rocm() else 5.0
+                llm.llm_engine.engine_core.shutdown(timeout=shutdown_timeout)
+            cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()