diff --git a/tests/scalers/kafka.test.ts b/tests/scalers/kafka.test.ts
index 986d7863a1f..e96f642f5de 100644
--- a/tests/scalers/kafka.test.ts
+++ b/tests/scalers/kafka.test.ts
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ test.serial('Latest Scale object should scale with new messages', t => {
   }
 })
 
-test.serial('cleanup after latest policy test', t=> {
+test.serial('Cleanup after latest policy test', t=> {
     t.is(
         0,
         sh.exec(`kubectl delete -f ${scaledObjectLatestYamlFile.name} --namespace ${defaultNamespace}`).code,
@@ -233,16 +233,18 @@ test.serial('Applying ScaledObject with multiple topics should scale up pods', t
 
     // produce a single msg to the default topic should not scale
     sh.exec(`kubectl exec --namespace ${defaultNamespace} ${defaultKafkaClient} -- sh -exc 'echo "{\"text\": \"foo\"}" | kafka-console-producer --broker-list ${defaultCluster}-kafka-bootstrap.${defaultNamespace}:9092 --topic ${defaultTopic}'`)
-    sh.exec(`sleep 5s`)
+    sh.exec(`sleep 20s`)
+    waitForReplicaCount(0, commandToCheckReplicas)
     t.is('0', sh.exec(commandToCheckReplicas).stdout, 'Replica count should be 0.')
 
     // produce one more msg to the different topic should trigger scale
     sh.exec(`kubectl exec --namespace ${defaultNamespace} ${defaultKafkaClient} -- sh -exc 'echo "{\"text\": \"foo\"}" | kafka-console-producer --broker-list ${defaultCluster}-kafka-bootstrap.${defaultNamespace}:9092 --topic ${defaultTopic2}'`)
-    sh.exec(`sleep 10s`)
+    sh.exec(`sleep 20s`)
+    waitForReplicaCount(1, commandToCheckReplicas)
     t.is('1', sh.exec(commandToCheckReplicas).stdout, 'Replica count should be 1.')
 })
 
-test.serial('cleanup after multiple topics test', t=> {
+test.serial('Cleanup after multiple topics test', t=> {
     t.is(
         0,
         sh.exec(`kubectl delete -f ${scaledObjectMultipleTopicsYamlFile.name} --namespace ${defaultNamespace}`).code,