diff --git a/oak-run/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/index/IncrementalStoreTest.java b/oak-run/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/index/IncrementalStoreTest.java
index 0048281d029..a0db76f6c79 100644
--- a/oak-run/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/index/IncrementalStoreTest.java
+++ b/oak-run/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/index/IncrementalStoreTest.java
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ public void testWithLz4CompressionWithCustomRegexFilterAndCustomExcludedPaths()
     public void incrementalFFSTest(boolean customRegexFilter, boolean customExcludedPathsFilter) throws Exception {
         Backend rwBackend = createNodeStore(false);
         createBaseContent(rwBackend.documentNodeStore);
+        rwBackend.documentNodeStore.runBackgroundOperations();
         String initialCheckpoint = rwBackend.documentNodeStore.checkpoint(3600000);
         Backend roBackend = createNodeStore(true);
 
@@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ public void incrementalFFSTest(boolean customRegexFilter, boolean customExcluded
         Path initialFfsPath = createFFS(roBackend, pathPredicate, basePreferredPathElements, List.of(new PathFilter(List.of("/"), Collections.emptyList())), initialCheckpoint, "initial", getNodeStateAtCheckpoint1(customRegexFilter, customExcludedPathsFilter));
 
         createIncrementalContent(rwBackend.documentNodeStore);
+        rwBackend.documentNodeStore.runBackgroundOperations();
         String finalCheckpoint = rwBackend.documentNodeStore.checkpoint(3600000);
         Backend roBackend1 = createNodeStore(true);
 
@@ -731,7 +733,7 @@ private Backend createNodeStore(boolean readOnly) {
         if (readOnly) {
             builder.setReadOnlyMode();
         }
-        builder.setAsyncDelay(1);
+        builder.setAsyncDelay(0);
         DocumentNodeStore documentNodeStore = builder.getNodeStore();
         BlobStore blobStore = new MemoryBlobStore();
         return new Backend(c.getMongoURI(), (MongoDocumentStore) builder.getDocumentStore(), documentNodeStore, c.getDatabase(), blobStore);