diff --git a/.github/workflows/conda-package.yml b/.github/workflows/conda-package.yml
index f0dff8a13c..577061b53b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/conda-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/conda-package.yml
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ jobs:
           python -c "import dpctl; dpctl.lsplatform()"
           export ARRAY_API_TESTS_MODULE=dpctl.tensor
           cd /home/runner/work/array-api-tests
-          pytest --json-report --json-report-file=$FILE array_api_tests/ || true
+          pytest --json-report --json-report-file=$FILE --skips-file ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/array-api-skips.txt array_api_tests/ || true
       - name: Set Github environment variables
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
diff --git a/dpctl/array-api-skips.txt b/dpctl/array-api-skips.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b9f29f7fae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dpctl/array-api-skips.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# array API tests to be skipped
+
+# no linalg module as of now
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-cholesky]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-cross]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-det]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-diagonal]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-eigh]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-eigvalsh]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-inv]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-matmul]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-matrix_norm]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-matrix_power]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-matrix_rank]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-matrix_transpose]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-outer]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-pinv]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-qr]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-slogdet]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-solve]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-svd]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-svdvals]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-tensordot]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-trace]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-vecdot]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-vector_norm]
+array_api_tests/test_has_names.py::test_has_names[linalg-pinv]