diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DeploymentManager.Tests/DeploySiteAsyncTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DeploymentManager.Tests/DeploySiteAsyncTests.cs
index d4fb73b7..463c98a1 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DeploymentManager.Tests/DeploySiteAsyncTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DeploymentManager.Tests/DeploySiteAsyncTests.cs
@@ -434,7 +434,14 @@ public class DeploySiteAsyncTests : TestKit
         var commActor = Sys.ActorOf(Props.Create(() =>
             new SilentQuerySiteActor(() => Interlocked.Increment(ref queryCount))));
 
-        var reconcileTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(300);
+        // The deadline must dwarf scheduler/JIT jitter (#92): the reconcile deadline
+        // covers the repo reads and the Ask itself, so a deadline of a few hundred ms
+        // can expire before the query is even sent when the full suite runs in
+        // parallel, and the old fixed 2 s wall-clock cap was blown by ~2.3 s of
+        // starvation on top of 6 x 300 ms. The breaker is proven STRUCTURALLY by the
+        // query count below; the elapsed check is only a coarse "not six deadlines"
+        // bound whose threshold is derived from the deadline, not a magic number.
+        var reconcileTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2);
         var service = CreateService(commActor, maxParallelism: 3, reconcileTimeout: reconcileTimeout);
 
         var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
@@ -446,8 +453,10 @@ public class DeploySiteAsyncTests : TestKit
         // The circuit-breaker opened after the first unanswered reconcile.
         Assert.Equal(1, Volatile.Read(ref queryCount));
 
-        // Prepare therefore cost ONE reconcile deadline, not six.
-        Assert.True(sw.Elapsed < TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2),
+        // Prepare therefore cost ONE reconcile deadline, not six: without the breaker
+        // the serial prepare alone would take >= instanceCount x deadline.
+        var withoutBreakerFloor = instanceCount * reconcileTimeout;
+        Assert.True(sw.Elapsed < withoutBreakerFloor - reconcileTimeout,
             $"bulk prepare took {sw.ElapsedMilliseconds} ms — the per-batch reconcile bound is not holding");
 
         // A skipped reconcile is not a failed deploy: every instance still went out.