diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 02e28fa0e716ff807759b7b2452c51db8bc850bc..4696a114fed01ea61b93cdd2f04c35459dfa9230 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ variables:
   IVAS_PIPELINE_NAME: ''
   BASOP_CI_BRANCH_PC_REPO: "basop-ci-branch"
   PRM_FILES: "scripts/config/self_test.prm scripts/config/self_test_ltv.prm"
+  TESTCASE_TIMEOUT_STV: 900
+  TESTCASE_TIMEOUT_LTV: 2400
   MANUAL_PIPELINE_TYPE:
     description: "Type for the manual pipeline run. Use 'pytest-mld' to run MLD test against reference float codec." # Not implemented yet, but may be good to have a manual pipeline trigger
     value: 'default'
@@ -217,6 +219,9 @@ stages:
     - if [ $USE_LTV -eq 1 ]; then
     -    *update-ltv-repo
     -    *copy-ltv-files-to-testv-dir
+    -    testcase_timeout=$TESTCASE_TIMEOUT_LTV
+    - else
+    -    testcase_timeout=$TESTCASE_TIMEOUT_STV
     - fi
     - python3 ci/remove_unsupported_testcases.py $PRM_FILES
     - if [ $LEVEL_SCALING != "1.0" ];then
@@ -226,8 +231,6 @@ stages:
 
     ### run pytest
     - exit_code=0
-    # timeout of 15 min per individual testcase - hopefully too much, but better be safe for now
-    - testcase_timeout=900
     - python3 -m pytest $TEST_SUITE -v --create_cut --html=report.html --self-contained-html --junit-xml=report-junit.xml --mld --dut_encoder_path $DUT_ENCODER_PATH --dut_decoder_path $DUT_DECODER_PATH -n auto --testcase_timeout $testcase_timeout || exit_code=$?
     - zero_errors=$(cat report-junit.xml | grep -c 'errors="0"') || true
 
@@ -273,7 +276,7 @@ stages:
     - make clean
     - make -j CLANG=$CLANG_NUM
     - if [[ $CLANG_NUM == 3 ]]; then export UBSAN_OPTIONS="suppressions=scripts/ubsan.supp,report_error_type=1"; fi
-    - testcase_timeout=300
+    - testcase_timeout=TESTCASE_TIMEOUT_STV
     - python3 -m pytest $SHORT_TEST_SUITE -v --tb=no --update_ref 1 -m create_ref --html=report.html --self-contained-html --junit-xml=report-junit.xml --testcase_timeout $testcase_timeout --ref_encoder_path ./IVAS_cod_ref --ref_decoder_path ./IVAS_dec
   artifacts:
     name: "$CI_JOB_NAME--sha-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA--results"