diff --git a/test/fixtures/scenarioManager.js b/test/fixtures/scenarioManager.js
index f27b9eeb035d..601499278787 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/scenarioManager.js
+++ b/test/fixtures/scenarioManager.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ function ScenarioManager(server) {
   // NOTE: some large sets of test data can take several minutes to load
   this.client = new elasticsearch.Client({
     host: server,
-    requestTimeout: 300000
+    requestTimeout: 3000000
   });
 }