diff --git a/.github/scripts/slackHelper.sh b/.github/scripts/slackHelper.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4696cebcf13b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/slackHelper.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+function sendSlackMessage() {
+
+  WEBHOOK_URL="$1"
+  PIPELINE_URL="$2"
+
+  curl -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" --data "{
+      \"blocks\": [
+        {
+			\"type\": \"section\",
+			\"text\": {
+				\"type\": \"mrkdwn\",
+				\"text\": \"\
+🚨 *CI/CD failure at <$PIPELINE_URL|NeMo CI>*:
+
+\"
+			}
+		}
+      ]
+    }" $WEBHOOK_URL
+
+}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml b/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml
index dbc7d907580a..53e92e976240 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml
@@ -6482,9 +6482,8 @@ jobs:
         - uses: "NVIDIA/NeMo/.github/actions/cancel-workflow@main"
           if: "failure()"
 
-
   Nemo_CICD_Test:
-    needs:
+    needs: 
       - L0_Unit_Tests_GPU
       - L0_Unit_Tests_CPU
       - L2_Community_LLM_Checkpoints_tests_Llama
@@ -6598,8 +6597,22 @@ jobs:
       - L2_TTS_Fast_dev_runs_1_Mixer-TTS
       - L2_TTS_Fast_dev_runs_1_Hifigan
       - Speech_Checkpoints_tests
-
+    if: always()
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
         # This should depend on all the tests so we block/unblock based on all tests passing
-      - run: exit 0
+      - if: ${{ contains(needs.*.result, 'success') }}
+        run: exit 0
+
+      - if: ${{ contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') }}
+        name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      
+      - if: ${{ contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') }}
+        run: |
+          source .github/scripts/slackHelper.sh
+
+          WEBHOOK_URL=${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK }}
+          PIPELINE_URL=${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
+
+          sendSlackMessage "$WEBHOOK_URL" "$PIPELINE_URL"