diff --git a/java-bigquery-jdbc/pom.xml b/java-bigquery-jdbc/pom.xml
index d4082c679acd..9ea2cfabf539 100644
--- a/java-bigquery-jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/java-bigquery-jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@
           <skip>${skipSurefire}</skip>
           <systemPropertyVariables>
             <JDBC_TESTS>true</JDBC_TESTS>
-            <java.net.preferIPv4Stack>true</java.net.preferIPv4Stack>
           </systemPropertyVariables>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
@@ -60,7 +59,6 @@
         <configuration>
           <systemPropertyVariables>
             <JDBC_TESTS>true</JDBC_TESTS>
-            <java.net.preferIPv4Stack>true</java.net.preferIPv4Stack>
           </systemPropertyVariables>
         </configuration>
         <dependencies>
diff --git a/java-bigquery-jdbc/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/jdbc/it/ITOpenTelemetryTest.java b/java-bigquery-jdbc/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/jdbc/it/ITOpenTelemetryTest.java
index 444b92fcefc0..4ffb4c9aed1b 100644
--- a/java-bigquery-jdbc/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/jdbc/it/ITOpenTelemetryTest.java
+++ b/java-bigquery-jdbc/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/jdbc/it/ITOpenTelemetryTest.java
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ private Trace verifyAndFetchTrace(String traceId) throws Exception {
 
   private <T> T pollWithRetry(java.util.concurrent.Callable<T> task) throws InterruptedException {
     int attempts = 0;
-    int maxAttempts = 10;
+    int maxAttempts = 24;
     long delayMs = 10000;
 
     // 10 second wait for GCP to ingest data