diff --git a/src/testlib/qtestcase.h b/src/testlib/qtestcase.h
index 54669c11de..fbc251a2a2 100644
--- a/src/testlib/qtestcase.h
+++ b/src/testlib/qtestcase.h
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ do {\
 // Ideally we'd use qWaitFor instead of QTRY_LOOP_IMPL, but due
 // to a compiler bug on MSVC < 2017 we can't (see QTBUG-59096)
 #define QTRY_IMPL(expr, timeout)\
-    const int qt_test_step = 50; \
+    const int qt_test_step = timeout < 350 ? timeout / 7 + 1 : 50; \
     const int qt_test_timeoutValue = timeout; \
     QTRY_LOOP_IMPL((expr), qt_test_timeoutValue, qt_test_step); \
     QTRY_TIMEOUT_DEBUG_IMPL((expr), qt_test_timeoutValue, qt_test_step)\