diff --git a/dev/run-tests-jenkins b/dev/run-tests-jenkins
index c4d39d95d58901499b0348b11468093350c03b31..f144c053046c57f759331deeec51c03c222b7fbb 100755
--- a/dev/run-tests-jenkins
+++ b/dev/run-tests-jenkins
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ COMMIT_URL="https://github.com/apache/spark/commit/${ghprbActualCommit}"
 SHORT_COMMIT_HASH="${ghprbActualCommit:0:7}"
 
 # format: http://linux.die.net/man/1/timeout
-# must be less than the timeout configured on Jenkins (currently 180m)
-TESTS_TIMEOUT="175m"
+# must be less than the timeout configured on Jenkins (currently 300m)
+TESTS_TIMEOUT="250m"
 
 # Array to capture all tests to run on the pull request. These tests are held under the
 #+ dev/tests/ directory.