diff --git a/test/torchaudio_unittest/transforms/autograd_test_impl.py b/test/torchaudio_unittest/transforms/autograd_test_impl.py
index 7c368445a8..b8fe6c1863 100644
--- a/test/torchaudio_unittest/transforms/autograd_test_impl.py
+++ b/test/torchaudio_unittest/transforms/autograd_test_impl.py
@@ -137,6 +137,16 @@ def test_amplitude_to_db(self):
         waveform = get_whitenoise(sample_rate=sample_rate, duration=0.05, n_channels=2)
         self.assert_grad(transform, [waveform])
 
+    def test_melscale(self):
+        sample_rate = 8000
+        n_fft = 400
+        n_mels = n_fft // 2 + 1
+        transform = T.MelScale(sample_rate=sample_rate, n_mels=n_mels)
+        spec = get_spectrogram(
+            get_whitenoise(sample_rate=sample_rate, duration=0.05, n_channels=2),
+            n_fft=n_fft, power=1)
+        self.assert_grad(transform, [spec])
+
     @parameterized.expand([(1.5, "amplitude"), (2, "power"), (10, "db")])
     def test_vol(self, gain, gain_type):
         sample_rate = 8000