diff --git a/components/camel-kafka/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/kafka/integration/KafkaConsumerAutoInstResumeRouteStrategyIT.java b/components/camel-kafka/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/kafka/integration/KafkaConsumerAutoInstResumeRouteStrategyIT.java
index 8c61cd65eb6d3..545e8d594b91a 100644
--- a/components/camel-kafka/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/kafka/integration/KafkaConsumerAutoInstResumeRouteStrategyIT.java
+++ b/components/camel-kafka/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/kafka/integration/KafkaConsumerAutoInstResumeRouteStrategyIT.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import java.time.Duration;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
 import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@
 import org.apache.camel.processor.resume.kafka.KafkaResumeStrategyConfigurationBuilder;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord;
+import org.awaitility.Awaitility;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -54,20 +56,21 @@ public static KafkaResumeStrategyConfigurationBuilder getDefaultKafkaResumeStrat
     public void before() {
         Properties props = KafkaTestUtil.getDefaultProperties(service);
         KafkaTestUtil.createTopic(service, TOPIC, 1);
-        KafkaProducer<Object, Object> producer = new KafkaProducer<>(props);
-
-        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
-            producer.send(new ProducerRecord<>(TOPIC, String.valueOf(i)));
+        try (KafkaProducer<Object, Object> producer = new KafkaProducer<>(props)) {
+            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+                producer.send(new ProducerRecord<>(TOPIC, String.valueOf(i)));
+            }
+            producer.flush();
         }
     }
 
     @Test
     @Timeout(value = 30)
-    public void testOffsetIsBeingChecked() throws InterruptedException {
+    public void testOffsetIsBeingChecked() {
         MockEndpoint mock = contextExtension.getMockEndpoint(KafkaTestUtil.MOCK_RESULT);
 
         mock.expectedMessageCount(10);
-        mock.assertIsSatisfied();
+        Awaitility.await().atMost(25, TimeUnit.SECONDS).untilAsserted(() -> mock.assertIsSatisfied());
     }
 
     @AfterEach
diff --git a/components/camel-kafka/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/kafka/integration/common/KafkaTestUtil.java b/components/camel-kafka/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/kafka/integration/common/KafkaTestUtil.java
index f8c33c2d07b61..183d204d5f02b 100644
--- a/components/camel-kafka/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/kafka/integration/common/KafkaTestUtil.java
+++ b/components/camel-kafka/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/kafka/integration/common/KafkaTestUtil.java
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 package org.apache.camel.component.kafka.integration.common;
 
 import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
@@ -32,12 +31,11 @@
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.NewTopic;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.TopicDescription;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig;
-import org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaFuture;
-import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartitionInfo;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.requests.CreateTopicsRequest;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import static org.awaitility.Awaitility.await;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;
 
@@ -91,16 +89,18 @@ public static void configureKafkaComponent(CamelContext context, String bootstra
     }
 
     public static void createTopic(KafkaService service, String topic, int numPartitions) {
-        AdminClient kafkaAdminClient = createAdminClient(service);
-        NewTopic testTopic = new NewTopic(topic, numPartitions, CreateTopicsRequest.NO_REPLICATION_FACTOR);
-        kafkaAdminClient.createTopics(Collections.singleton(testTopic));
-        KafkaFuture<TopicDescription> tdFuture
-                = kafkaAdminClient.describeTopics(Collections.singletonList(topic)).topicNameValues().get(topic);
-
-        try {
-            TopicDescription td = tdFuture.get(5L, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
-            List<TopicPartitionInfo> pi = td.partitions();
-            assertEquals(numPartitions, pi.size());
+        try (AdminClient kafkaAdminClient = createAdminClient(service)) {
+            NewTopic testTopic = new NewTopic(topic, numPartitions, CreateTopicsRequest.NO_REPLICATION_FACTOR);
+            kafkaAdminClient.createTopics(Collections.singleton(testTopic));
+            await().atMost(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
+                    .pollInterval(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
+                    .ignoreExceptions()
+                    .untilAsserted(() -> {
+                        TopicDescription td = kafkaAdminClient
+                                .describeTopics(Collections.singletonList(topic)).topicNameValues().get(topic)
+                                .get(5L, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+                        assertEquals(numPartitions, td.partitions().size());
+                    });
         } catch (Exception e) {
             fail("Exception while creating Kafka topic", e);
         }