diff --git a/web/src/test-setup.ts b/web/src/test-setup.ts
index 3dea53b41..240b00e34 100644
--- a/web/src/test-setup.ts
+++ b/web/src/test-setup.ts
@@ -17,11 +17,17 @@ along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 For commercial licensing, please contact support@quantumnous.com
 */
 import '@testing-library/jest-dom/vitest'
-import { cleanup } from '@testing-library/react'
+import { cleanup, configure } from '@testing-library/react'
 import i18next from 'i18next'
 import { initReactI18next } from 'react-i18next'
 import { afterEach, beforeAll } from 'vitest'
 
+// The testing-library default of 1000ms for findBy*/waitFor is too tight for
+// this suite on contended CI runners, where a first-in-file test also pays the
+// full cold-render cost. Keep it below vitest's testTimeout so async lookup
+// failures still report the missing element instead of a generic test timeout.
+configure({ asyncUtilTimeout: 5000 })
+
 beforeAll(async () => {
   await i18next.use(initReactI18next).init({
     lng: 'en',
@@ -38,10 +44,18 @@ afterEach(() => {
   cleanup()
 })
 
+// Prefer reduced motion in tests: entrance animations write inline
+// `opacity: 0` on their first frame, and jsdom advances frames through a
+// setTimeout-based rAF shim, so jest-dom visibility assertions would race the
+// animation. The reduced-motion code paths render the same DOM without
+// transient hidden states. Both `(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)` and the
+// boolean `(prefers-reduced-motion)` form match; `no-preference` does not.
 Object.defineProperty(window, 'matchMedia', {
   configurable: true,
   value: (query: string): MediaQueryList => ({
-    matches: false,
+    matches:
+      query.includes('prefers-reduced-motion') &&
+      !query.includes('no-preference'),
     media: query,
     onchange: null,
     addListener: () => undefined,
diff --git a/web/vitest.config.ts b/web/vitest.config.ts
index 168d9c6b8..a1a063609 100644
--- a/web/vitest.config.ts
+++ b/web/vitest.config.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ export default defineConfig({
       deps: { inline: [/@lobehub\//, /antd-style/] },
     },
     setupFiles: ['./src/test-setup.ts'],
+    // Several heavy jsdom suites (channel-configuration, visual-billing-editor)
+    // legitimately take >5s per test on contended CI runners; the vitest
+    // default of 5000ms fails whichever of them crosses the line first. The
+    // heaviest test measures ~3.2s uncontended, so 20s keeps headroom for the
+    // ~4x slowdown observed on shared runners.
+    testTimeout: 20000,
     clearMocks: true,
     restoreMocks: true,
     include: ['src/**/*.{test,spec}.{ts,tsx}'],