diff --git a/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/main.nf b/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/main.nf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..94cf78da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/main.nf
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+process GATK_INDELREALIGNER {
+    tag "$meta.id"
+    label 'process_low'
+
+    conda (params.enable_conda ? "bioconda::gatk=3.5" : null)
+    container "${ workflow.containerEngine == 'singularity' && !task.ext.singularity_pull_docker_container ?
+        'https://depot.galaxyproject.org/singularity/gatk:3.5--hdfd78af_11':
+        'quay.io/biocontainers/gatk:3.5--hdfd78af_11' }"
+
+    input:
+    tuple val(meta), path(bam), path(bai), path(intervals)
+    path(fasta)
+    path(fai)
+    path(dict)
+    path(known_vcf)
+
+    output:
+    tuple val(meta), path("*.bam"), path("*.bai"), emit: bam
+    path "versions.yml"           , emit: versions
+
+    when:
+    task.ext.when == null || task.ext.when
+
+    script:
+    def args = task.ext.args ?: ''
+    def prefix = task.ext.prefix ?: "${meta.id}"
+    def known = known_vcf ? "-known ${known_vcf}" : ""
+
+    if ("$bam" == "${prefix}.bam") error "Input and output names are the same, set prefix in module configuration to disambiguate!"
+
+    def avail_mem = 3
+    if (!task.memory) {
+        log.info '[GATK IndelRealigner] Available memory not known - defaulting to 3GB. Specify process memory requirements to change this.'
+    } else {
+        avail_mem = task.memory.giga
+    }
+
+    """
+    gatk3 \\
+        -Xmx${avail_mem}g \\
+        -T IndelRealigner \\
+        -R ${fasta} \\
+        -I ${bam} \\
+        --targetIntervals ${intervals} \\
+        ${known} \\
+        -o ${prefix}.bam \\
+        $args
+
+    cat <<-END_VERSIONS > versions.yml
+    "${task.process}":
+        gatk: \$(echo \$(gatk3 --version))
+    END_VERSIONS
+    """
+}
diff --git a/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/meta.yml b/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/meta.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..35ad28e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/meta.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+name: "gatk_indelrealigner"
+description: Performs local realignment around indels to correct for mapping errors
+keywords:
+  - bam
+  - vcf
+  - variant calling
+  - indel
+  - realignment
+tools:
+  - "gatk":
+      description: "The full Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) framework, license restricted."
+      homepage: "https://gatk.broadinstitute.org/hc/en-us"
+      documentation: "https://github.com/broadinstitute/gatk-docs"
+      licence: "['https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/download/licensing', 'BSD', 'https://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/about/#licensing']"
+
+input:
+  - meta:
+      type: map
+      description: |
+        Groovy Map containing sample information
+        e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
+  - bam:
+      type: file
+      description: Sorted and indexed BAM file
+      pattern: "*.bam"
+  - bai:
+      type: file
+      description: BAM index file
+      pattern: "*.bai"
+  - intervals:
+      type: file
+      description: Intervals file created by gatk3 RealignerTargetCreator
+      pattern: "*.{intervals,list}"
+  - fasta:
+      type: file
+      description: Reference file used to generate BAM file
+      pattern: ".{fasta,fa,fna}"
+  - fai:
+      type: file
+      description: Index of reference file used to generate BAM file
+      pattern: ".fai"
+  - dict:
+      type: file
+      description: GATK dict file for reference
+      pattern: ".dict"
+  - known_vcf:
+      type: file
+      description: Optional input VCF file(s) with known indels
+      pattern: ".vcf"
+
+output:
+  - meta:
+      type: map
+      description: |
+        Groovy Map containing sample information
+        e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
+  - versions:
+      type: file
+      description: File containing software versions
+      pattern: "versions.yml"
+  - bam:
+      type: file
+      description: Sorted and indexed BAM file with local realignment around variants
+      pattern: "*.bam"
+  - bai:
+      type: file
+      description: Output BAM Index file
+      pattern: "*.bai"
+
+authors:
+  - "@jfy133"
diff --git a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
index c128c677..b3a5a24c 100644
--- a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
+++ b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
@@ -715,6 +715,10 @@ gamma/gamma:
   - modules/gamma/gamma/**
   - tests/modules/gamma/gamma/**
 
+gatk/indelrealigner:
+  - modules/gatk/indelrealigner/**
+  - tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/**
+
 gatk/realignertargetcreator:
   - modules/gatk/realignertargetcreator/**
   - tests/modules/gatk/realignertargetcreator/**
diff --git a/tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/main.nf b/tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/main.nf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d4e01e12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/main.nf
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
+
+nextflow.enable.dsl = 2
+
+include { GATK_REALIGNERTARGETCREATOR } from '../../../../modules/gatk/realignertargetcreator/main.nf'
+include { GATK_INDELREALIGNER } from '../../../../modules/gatk/indelrealigner/main.nf'
+
+
+workflow test_gatk_indelrealigner {
+
+
+    fasta = file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['genome']['genome_fasta'], checkIfExists: true)
+    fai   = file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['genome']['genome_fasta_fai'], checkIfExists: true)
+    dict  = file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['genome']['genome_dict'], checkIfExists: true)
+
+    input_realignertargetcreator     = [ [ id:'test' ], // meta map
+                  file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_paired_end_sorted_bam'], checkIfExists: true),
+                  file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_paired_end_sorted_bam_bai'], checkIfExists: true),
+                ]
+
+    GATK_REALIGNERTARGETCREATOR ( input_realignertargetcreator, fasta, fai, dict, [] )
+
+    ch_intervals = GATK_REALIGNERTARGETCREATOR.out.intervals
+
+    ch_bams_indelrealigner = Channel.of([ [ id:'test' ], // meta map
+                  file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_paired_end_sorted_bam'], checkIfExists: true),
+                  file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_paired_end_sorted_bam_bai'], checkIfExists: true)
+                ])
+
+    ch_input_indelrealigner = ch_bams_indelrealigner.mix(ch_intervals).groupTuple(by: 0).map{ [it[0], it[1][0], it[2], it[1][1] ] }.dump(tag: "input")
+
+    GATK_INDELREALIGNER ( ch_input_indelrealigner, fasta, fai, dict, [] )
+}
diff --git a/tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/nextflow.config b/tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/nextflow.config
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..489a478f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/nextflow.config
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+process {
+
+    publishDir = { "${params.outdir}/${task.process.tokenize(':')[-1].tokenize('_')[0].toLowerCase()}" }
+    ext.prefix = { "${meta.id}.realigned" }
+
+}
diff --git a/tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/test.yml b/tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/test.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b7f0c465
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+- name: gatk indelrealigner test_gatk_indelrealigner
+  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner -entry test_gatk_indelrealigner -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config  -c ./tests/modules/gatk/indelrealigner/nextflow.config
+  tags:
+    - gatk/indelrealigner
+    - gatk
+  files:
+    - path: output/gatk/test.realigned.bai
+      md5sum: 85a67df8827fe426e7f3a458134c0551
+    - path: output/gatk/test.realigned.bam
+      md5sum: ea1df6f7fcafc408fae4dc1574813d8a
+    - path: output/gatk/test.realigned.intervals
+      md5sum: 7aa7a1b235a510e6591e262382086bf8