diff --git a/.circleci/ci/it-tests.js b/.circleci/ci/it-tests.js
index dcb4a20199..6713b7dc69 100644
--- a/.circleci/ci/it-tests.js
+++ b/.circleci/ci/it-tests.js
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 'use strict';
 
 const ci = new (require('./ci.js'))();
+const process = require('process');
 
 ci.context();
 
@@ -96,9 +97,12 @@ try {
             ci.sh(`mvn clean install -PautoInstallPackage`);
         });
 
+
+        const [node, script, ...params] = process.argv;
+        let testSuites = params.join(',');
         // start running the tests
         ci.dir('ui.tests', () => {
-            ci.sh(`mvn verify -U -B -Pcypress-ci -DENV_CI=true`);
+            ci.sh(`mvn verify -U -B -Pcypress-ci -DENV_CI=true -DspecFiles="${testSuites}"`);
     });
     }
 
@@ -139,5 +143,9 @@ try {
     ci.sh('curl -O -f http://localhost:3000/crx-quickstart/logs/stdout.log');
     ci.sh('curl -O -f http://localhost:3000/crx-quickstart/logs/stderr.log');
     ci.sh(`find . -name '*.log' -type f -size +32M -exec echo 'Truncating: ' {} \\; -execdir truncate --size 32M {} +`);
-});
+    });
+    // test-results folder will store the test-timing data for parallelising test-suites
+    ci.sh('mkdir -p test-results/test/');
+    ci.sh('cp ./ui.tests/test-module/target/reports/*.xml ./test-results/test/');
+    
 }
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index b4c28d765c..d97e755969 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ common:
 
   cypress_test_steps: &cypress_test_steps
     steps:
+      - run:
+          name: Check out previous test metadata
+          command: |
+            cat "${CIRCLE_INTERNAL_TASK_DATA}/circle-test-results/test/results.json" | jq .
       - checkout
       - browser-tools/install-chrome
       - browser-tools/install-chromedriver
@@ -28,9 +32,15 @@ common:
           at: /home/circleci/build
       - run:
           name: UI tests
-          command: node .circleci/ci/it-tests.js
+          command: |
+                cd ui.tests/test-module
+                shopt -s globstar
+                SPEC_PATH="specs/**/*.spec.js"
+                TEST=$(circleci tests glob ${SPEC_PATH} | circleci tests split --split-by=timings)
+                cd ../../
+                node .circleci/ci/it-tests.js $TEST
       - store_test_results:
-          path: ui.tests/test-module/target/reports
+          path: test-results
       # Save test results as artifacts
       - store_artifacts:
           path: ui.tests/test-module/target
@@ -123,6 +133,7 @@ jobs:
       PRERELEASE: 'true'
     resource_class: large
     working_directory: /home/circleci/build
+    parallelism: 8
     <<: *cypress_test_steps
 
   cypress-chrome-cloudready-with-latest-addon:
diff --git a/ui.tests/pom.xml b/ui.tests/pom.xml
index 297ab70999..2364fd094b 100644
--- a/ui.tests/pom.xml
+++ b/ui.tests/pom.xml
@@ -319,6 +319,7 @@
                                     <arguments>
                                         <argument>${project.basedir}/test-module/node_modules/.bin/cypress</argument>
                                         <argument>run</argument>
+                                        <argument>--spec=${specFiles}</argument>
                                         <argument>--browser</argument>
                                         <argument>chrome</argument>
                                         <argument>--headless</argument>