diff --git a/tests/functional/adapter/test_retries_iceberg.py b/tests/functional/adapter/test_retries_iceberg.py
index c9653bf4..9bfb7821 100644
--- a/tests/functional/adapter/test_retries_iceberg.py
+++ b/tests/functional/adapter/test_retries_iceberg.py
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class TestIcebergRetriesEnabled:
     def dbt_profile_target(self):
         profile = copy.deepcopy(base_dbt_profile)
         # we set the iceberg retries to the same number of parallelism to make sure that the retries are working
-        profile["num_iceberg_retries"] = PARALLELISM
+        profile["num_iceberg_retries"] = PARALLELISM * 2
         return profile
 
     @pytest.fixture(scope="class")