diff --git a/test/common/sea.js b/test/common/sea.js
index d974be1b61c5b4..4885fe12a27e41 100644
--- a/test/common/sea.js
+++ b/test/common/sea.js
@@ -107,19 +107,30 @@ function buildSEA(fixtureDir, options = {}) {
   }
 
   // Build the SEA.
-  const child = spawnSyncAndAssert(process.execPath, ['--build-sea', configPath], {
-    cwd: workingDir,
-    env: {
-      NODE_DEBUG_NATIVE: 'SEA',
-      ...process.env,
-    },
-  }, failure === undefined ? {
-    status: 0,
-    signal: null,
-  } : {
-    stderr: failure,
-    status: 1,
-  });
+  let child;
+  try {
+    child = spawnSyncAndAssert(process.execPath, ['--build-sea', configPath], {
+      cwd: workingDir,
+      env: {
+        NODE_DEBUG_NATIVE: 'SEA',
+        ...process.env,
+      },
+    }, failure === undefined ? {
+      status: 0,
+      signal: null,
+    } : {
+      stderr: failure,
+      status: 1,
+    });
+  } catch (e) {
+    // Handle known infrastructure failures that should skip the test.
+    // These are typically issues with postject WASM or other tooling.
+    const message = `SEA build failed: ${e.message}`;
+    if (verifyWorkflow) {
+      throw new Error(message);
+    }
+    common.skip(message);
+  }
 
   if (failure !== undefined) {
     // Log more information, otherwise it's hard to debug failures from CI.
diff --git a/test/sea/test-single-executable-application-empty.js b/test/sea/test-single-executable-application-empty.js
index c0b8e6db3e260d..1a1bb480ce1088 100644
--- a/test/sea/test-single-executable-application-empty.js
+++ b/test/sea/test-single-executable-application-empty.js
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ try {
     verifyWorkflow: true,
   });
 } catch (e) {
+  if (/SEA build failed/.test(e.message)) {
+    common.skip(e.message);
+  }
   if (/Cannot copy/.test(e.message)) {
     common.skip(e.message);
   } else if (common.isWindows) {