diff --git a/docs/rules/await-async-query.md b/docs/rules/await-async-query.md
index 29f32cac..0f86c9eb 100644
--- a/docs/rules/await-async-query.md
+++ b/docs/rules/await-async-query.md
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ const bar = () => {
 
 // return the promise within a function is correct too!
 const findMyButton = () => findByText('my button');
+
+// using a resolves/rejects matcher is also correct
+expect(findByTestId('alert')).resolves.toBe('Success');
+expect(findByTestId('alert')).rejects.toBe('Error');
 ```
 
 ## Further Reading
diff --git a/lib/rules/await-async-query.js b/lib/rules/await-async-query.js
index 11e10b85..d46ef702 100644
--- a/lib/rules/await-async-query.js
+++ b/lib/rules/await-async-query.js
@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@ module.exports = {
     const testingLibraryQueryUsage = [];
     return {
       [`CallExpression > Identifier[name=${ASYNC_QUERIES_REGEXP}]`](node) {
-        if (!isAwaited(node.parent.parent) && !isPromiseResolved(node)) {
+        if (
+          !isAwaited(node.parent.parent) &&
+          !isPromiseResolved(node) &&
+          !hasClosestExpectResolvesRejects(node)
+        ) {
           testingLibraryQueryUsage.push(node);
         }
       },
@@ -101,3 +105,19 @@ function isPromiseResolved(node) {
   // promise.then(...)
   return hasAThenProperty(parent);
 }
+
+function hasClosestExpectResolvesRejects(node) {
+  if (!node.parent) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  if (node.type === 'CallExpression' && node.callee.name === 'expect') {
+    const expectMatcher = node.parent.property;
+    return (
+      expectMatcher &&
+      (expectMatcher.name === 'resolves' || expectMatcher.name === 'rejects')
+    );
+  } else {
+    return hasClosestExpectResolvesRejects(node.parent);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/lib/rules/await-async-query.js b/tests/lib/rules/await-async-query.js
index f4032413..b21d6a8c 100644
--- a/tests/lib/rules/await-async-query.js
+++ b/tests/lib/rules/await-async-query.js
@@ -118,6 +118,22 @@ ruleTester.run('await-async-query', rule, {
       }
       `,
     },
+
+    // resolves/rejects matchers are valid
+    ...ASYNC_QUERIES_COMBINATIONS.map(query => ({
+      code: `test(() => {
+        expect(${query}("foo")).resolves.toBe("bar")
+        expect(wrappedQuery(${query}("foo"))).resolves.toBe("bar")
+      })
+      `,
+    })),
+    ...ASYNC_QUERIES_COMBINATIONS.map(query => ({
+      code: `test(() => {
+        expect(${query}("foo")).rejects.toBe("bar")
+        expect(wrappedQuery(${query}("foo"))).rejects.toBe("bar")
+      })
+      `,
+    })),
   ],
 
   invalid: