diff --git a/operator/src/test/java/org/keycloak/operator/testsuite/integration/BaseOperatorTest.java b/operator/src/test/java/org/keycloak/operator/testsuite/integration/BaseOperatorTest.java
index 0ad805972a..2c07bf3c8a 100644
--- a/operator/src/test/java/org/keycloak/operator/testsuite/integration/BaseOperatorTest.java
+++ b/operator/src/test/java/org/keycloak/operator/testsuite/integration/BaseOperatorTest.java
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ import org.keycloak.operator.crds.v2alpha1.deployment.KeycloakSpecBuilder;
 import org.keycloak.operator.crds.v2alpha1.deployment.KeycloakSpecFluent.UnsupportedNested;
 import org.keycloak.operator.crds.v2alpha1.deployment.KeycloakStatus;
 import org.keycloak.operator.crds.v2alpha1.deployment.spec.UnsupportedSpecFluent.PodTemplateNested;
+import org.keycloak.operator.crds.v2alpha1.realmimport.KeycloakRealmImport;
 import org.keycloak.operator.testsuite.utils.K8sUtils;
 import org.opentest4j.TestAbortedException;
 
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ import java.net.URL;
 import java.time.Duration;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.UUID;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Instance;
 import jakarta.enterprise.inject.spi.CDI;
@@ -156,6 +158,9 @@ public class BaseOperatorTest implements QuarkusTestAfterEachCallback {
   static void createCRDs(KubernetesClient client) throws FileNotFoundException {
     K8sUtils.set(client, new FileInputStream(TARGET_KUBERNETES_GENERATED_YML_FOLDER + "keycloaks.k8s.keycloak.org-v1.yml"));
     K8sUtils.set(client, new FileInputStream(TARGET_KUBERNETES_GENERATED_YML_FOLDER + "keycloakrealmimports.k8s.keycloak.org-v1.yml"));
+
+    Awaitility.await().pollInterval(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS).untilAsserted(() -> client.resources(Keycloak.class).list());
+    Awaitility.await().pollInterval(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS).untilAsserted(() -> client.resources(KeycloakRealmImport.class).list());
   }
 
   private static void registerReconcilers() {
@@ -239,7 +244,7 @@ public class BaseOperatorTest implements QuarkusTestAfterEachCallback {
   }
 
   private static void setDefaultAwaitilityTimings() {
-    Awaitility.setDefaultPollInterval(Duration.ofSeconds(1));
+    Awaitility.setDefaultPollInterval(Duration.ofMillis(500));
     Awaitility.setDefaultTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(360));
   }