diff --git a/clients/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/SenderTest.java b/clients/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/SenderTest.java
index 2297109b14836..a458f06d00fcc 100644
--- a/clients/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/SenderTest.java
+++ b/clients/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/SenderTest.java
@@ -567,6 +567,37 @@ public void testMetadataTopicExpiry() throws Exception {
         assertTrue(future.isDone(), "Request should be completed");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void senderThreadShouldNotBlockWhenBackingOffAndAddingPartitionsToTxn() {
+        ProducerIdAndEpoch producerIdAndEpoch = new ProducerIdAndEpoch(123456L, (short) 0);
+        apiVersions.update("0", NodeApiVersions.create(ApiKeys.INIT_PRODUCER_ID.id, (short) 0, (short) 3));
+        TransactionManager txnManager = new TransactionManager(logContext, "testUnresolvedSeq", 60000, 100, apiVersions);
+
+        setupWithTransactionState(txnManager);
+        doInitTransactions(txnManager, producerIdAndEpoch);
+
+        int backoffTimeMs = 10;
+        long now = time.milliseconds();
+        Node nodeToThrottle = metadata.fetch().nodeById(0);
+        // client.throttle(nodeToThrottle, backoffTimeMs);
+        client.backoff(nodeToThrottle, backoffTimeMs);
+        assertTrue(client.isConnected(nodeToThrottle.idString()));
+        client.disconnect(nodeToThrottle.idString());
+        assertFalse(client.isConnected(nodeToThrottle.idString()));
+
+        // Verify node is throttled about 10ms. In real-life Apache Kafka, we observe that this can happen
+        // as done above (with a disconnect and a backoff) or if the producer receives a response with
+        // throttleTimeMs > 0.
+        long currentPollDelay = client.pollDelayMs(nodeToThrottle, now);
+        assertTrue(currentPollDelay > 0);
+        assertTrue(currentPollDelay <= backoffTimeMs);
+
+        txnManager.beginTransaction();
+        txnManager.maybeAddPartition(tp0);
+
+        // sender.runOnce();
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testNodeLatencyStats() throws Exception {
         try (Metrics m = new Metrics()) {