diff --git a/.github/workflows/ibis-backends.yml b/.github/workflows/ibis-backends.yml
index 9b96f488eddc2..7eb4ac6a87223 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ibis-backends.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ibis-backends.yml
@@ -420,3 +420,67 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: ${{ matrix.backend }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}
           path: junit.xml
+
+  test_datafusion:
+    name: DataFusion ubuntu-latest python-${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version:
+          - "3.7"
+          - "3.9"
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          path: datafusion
+          repository: apache/arrow-datafusion
+
+      - name: install python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: install rust
+        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
+        with:
+          profile: minimal
+          toolchain: stable
+
+      - name: install poetry and maturin
+        run: pip install poetry maturin
+
+      - name: cache dependencies
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: ~/.cache/pypoetry
+          key: datafusion-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}
+
+      - name: install datafusion
+        working-directory: datafusion
+        run: maturin develop
+
+      - name: install ibis
+        run: poetry install --extras datafusion
+
+      - name: download backend data
+        run: poetry run python ci/datamgr.py download
+
+      - name: install backend data
+        run: poetry run python ci/datamgr.py datafusion
+
+      - name: run tests
+        env:
+          PYTEST_BACKENDS: datafusion
+        run: ./ci/run_tests.sh
+
+      - name: publish test report
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        if: success() || failure()
+        with:
+          name: ${{ matrix.backend }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          path: junit.xml