diff --git a/.github/workflows/CI.yml b/.github/workflows/CI.yml
index 4394fd1ef26..ee16988ff9f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/CI.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/CI.yml
@@ -405,9 +405,18 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - name: Checkout Repository
       uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - name: Set Python version to 3.14
+    - name: Clone the parquet tests
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        repository: apache/parquet-testing
+        ref: 4cf674fc589309ba8651ad676f3fb557582d9cab
+        path: parquet-testing
+    - name: Set the parquet testing path
       run: |
-        update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.14 1
+        echo "ARKOUDA_PARQUET_TEST_DATA_DIR=$(pwd)/parquet-testing/data" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+    - name: Set Python version to 3.13
+      run: |
+        update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.13 1
     - name: Check Chapel version
       run: |
         chpl --version
@@ -425,9 +434,19 @@ jobs:
           echo "\$(eval \$(call add-path,$DEP_INSTALL_DIR/libiconv-install/))" >> Makefile.paths
     - name: Build/Install Arkouda
       run: |
-        make
+        cat > UsedModules.cfg <<'EOF'
+        SequenceMsg
+        ParquetMsg
+        CastMsg
+        SegmentedMsg
+        EOF
+        ARKOUDA_CONFIG_FILE=UsedModules.cfg make
         python3 -m pip install .[dev]
+        python3 -m pip uninstall pyarrow -y
+        python3 -m pip install pyarrow==19.0.1
     - name: Arkouda unit tests
+      env:
+        ARKOUDA_PYTEST_OPTIONS: "-v tests/pandas/parquet_edge_test.py"
       run: |
         make test-python size=100
 
diff --git a/pytest.ini b/pytest.ini
index 66f488c5605..fd2f17f36cc 100644
--- a/pytest.ini
+++ b/pytest.ini
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ log_file_format = %(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(message)s
 ; raise an error if an xfail test passes (xpass)
 xfail_strict=true
 
-#   Set the timeout to 30 minutes:
-timeout = 1800
+#   Set the timeout to 45 minutes:
+timeout = 2700
 #   Set timeout_method to 'signal' on Unix
 timeout_method = thread