diff --git a/.github/workflows/payload-after-push.yaml b/.github/workflows/payload-after-push.yaml
index 43a1f9f456..04662723cd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/payload-after-push.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/payload-after-push.yaml
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ jobs:
           yq eval '.image.reference = "quay.io/kata-containers/kata-deploy-ci" | .image.tag = "kata-containers-latest"' -i tools/packaging/kata-deploy/helm-chart/kata-deploy/values.yaml
 
           echo "Generating the chart package"
+          helm dependencies update tools/packaging/kata-deploy/helm-chart/kata-deploy
           helm package tools/packaging/kata-deploy/helm-chart/kata-deploy
 
           echo "Pushing the chart to the OCI registries"
diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-parallel.bats b/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-parallel.bats
index fa8f47409a..c80a76d89f 100644
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-parallel.bats
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-parallel.bats
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ setup() {
 	kubectl get jobs -l jobgroup=${job_name}
 
 	# Check the pods
-	kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready --timeout=$timeout pod -l jobgroup=${job_name}
+	kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready --timeout=120s pod -l jobgroup=${job_name}
 
 	# Check output of the jobs
 	for i in $(kubectl get pods -l jobgroup=${job_name} -o name); do
diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/run_kubernetes_tests.sh b/tests/integration/kubernetes/run_kubernetes_tests.sh
index 6ee90129ae..92097baeb8 100755
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/run_kubernetes_tests.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/run_kubernetes_tests.sh
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ else
 		"k8s-port-forward.bats" \
 		"k8s-privileged.bats" \
 		"k8s-projected-volume.bats" \
-		"k8s-qos-pods.bats" \
 		"k8s-replication.bats" \
 		"k8s-seccomp.bats" \
 		"k8s-sysctls.bats" \
@@ -99,6 +98,7 @@ else
 	K8S_TEST_NORMAL_HOST_UNION=( \
 		"k8s-number-cpus.bats" \
 		"k8s-parallel.bats" \
+		"k8s-qos-pods.bats" \
 		"k8s-sandbox-vcpus-allocation.bats" \
 		"k8s-scale-nginx.bats" \
 	)
diff --git a/tools/packaging/release/release.sh b/tools/packaging/release/release.sh
index 4a3f0a6d7a..1901ab91d6 100755
--- a/tools/packaging/release/release.sh
+++ b/tools/packaging/release/release.sh
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ function _upload_helm_chart_tarball()
 
 	RELEASE_VERSION="$(_release_version)"
 
+	helm dependencies update ${repo_root_dir}/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/helm-chart/kata-deploy
 	helm package ${repo_root_dir}/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/helm-chart/kata-deploy
 	gh release upload "${RELEASE_VERSION}" "kata-deploy-${RELEASE_VERSION}.tgz"
 }