diff --git a/test/integration/dra/binding_conditions_test.go b/test/integration/dra/binding_conditions_test.go
index 83f4acfde7e..35041c685d8 100644
--- a/test/integration/dra/binding_conditions_test.go
+++ b/test/integration/dra/binding_conditions_test.go
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ var (
 // testDeviceBindingConditions is the entry point for running each integration test that verifies DeviceBindingConditions.
 // Some of these tests use device taints, and they assume that DRADeviceTaints is enabled.
 func testDeviceBindingConditions(tCtx ktesting.TContext, enabled bool) {
+	tCtx.Parallel()
+
 	tCtx.Run("BasicFlow", func(tCtx ktesting.TContext) { testDeviceBindingConditionsBasicFlow(tCtx, enabled) })
 	if enabled {
 		tCtx.Run("FailureTaints", func(tCtx ktesting.TContext) { testDeviceBindingFailureConditionsReschedule(tCtx, true) })
diff --git a/test/integration/dra/dra_test.go b/test/integration/dra/dra_test.go
index 9e85a606b3e..69151b711c8 100644
--- a/test/integration/dra/dra_test.go
+++ b/test/integration/dra/dra_test.go
@@ -118,8 +118,11 @@ var (
 				Namespace(namespace).
 				RequestWithPrioritizedList(st.SubRequest("subreq-1", className, 1)).
 				Obj()
+)
 
-	numNodes = 8
+const (
+	numNodes       = 8
+	maxPodsPerNode = 5000 // This should never be the limiting factor, no matter how many tests run in parallel.
 )
 
 func TestDRA(t *testing.T) {
@@ -226,6 +229,8 @@ func TestDRA(t *testing.T) {
 				features.DRAExtendedResource:          true,
 			},
 			f: func(tCtx ktesting.TContext) {
+				// These tests must run in parallel as much as possible to keep overall runtime low!
+
 				tCtx.Run("AdminAccess", func(tCtx ktesting.TContext) { testAdminAccess(tCtx, true) })
 				tCtx.Run("Convert", testConvert)
 				tCtx.Run("ControllerManagerMetrics", testControllerManagerMetrics)
@@ -301,7 +306,7 @@ func createNodes(tCtx ktesting.TContext) {
 			Capacity: v1.ResourceList{
 				v1.ResourceCPU:    resource.MustParse("100"),
 				v1.ResourceMemory: resource.MustParse("1000"),
-				v1.ResourcePods:   resource.MustParse("100"),
+				v1.ResourcePods:   *resource.NewScaledQuantity(maxPodsPerNode, 0),
 			},
 			Phase: v1.NodeRunning,
 			Conditions: []v1.NodeCondition{
@@ -478,6 +483,8 @@ func testConvert(tCtx ktesting.TContext) {
 // when the AdminAccess feature is enabled, it also checks that the field
 // is only allowed to be used in namespace with the Resource Admin Access label
 func testAdminAccess(tCtx ktesting.TContext, adminAccessEnabled bool) {
+	tCtx.Parallel()
+
 	namespace := createTestNamespace(tCtx, nil)
 	claim1 := claim.DeepCopy()
 	claim1.Namespace = namespace
@@ -1192,6 +1199,8 @@ func testPublishResourceSlices(tCtx ktesting.TContext, haveLatestAPI bool, disab
 //
 // When enabled, it tries server-side-apply (SSA) with different clients. This is what DRA drivers should be using.
 func testResourceClaimDeviceStatus(tCtx ktesting.TContext, enabled bool) {
+	tCtx.Parallel()
+
 	namespace := createTestNamespace(tCtx, nil)
 
 	claim := &resourceapi.ResourceClaim{
@@ -1386,7 +1395,8 @@ func testMaxResourceSlice(tCtx ktesting.TContext) {
 	}
 }
 
-// testControllerManagerMetrics tests ResourceClaim metrics
+// testControllerManagerMetrics tests ResourceClaim metrics.
+// It must run sequentially.
 func testControllerManagerMetrics(tCtx ktesting.TContext) {
 	namespace := createTestNamespace(tCtx, nil)
 	class, _ := createTestClass(tCtx, namespace)