diff --git a/tests/system/suite_debugger/tst_qml_js_console/test.py b/tests/system/suite_debugger/tst_qml_js_console/test.py
index 329839cb7fe..b94303bfb1b 100644
--- a/tests/system/suite_debugger/tst_qml_js_console/test.py
+++ b/tests/system/suite_debugger/tst_qml_js_console/test.py
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ def main():
         switchViewTo(ViewConstants.EDIT)
         # start debugging
         clickButton(fancyDebugButton)
+        progressBarWait()
         waitForObject(":Locals and Expressions_Debugger::Internal::WatchTreeView")
         rootIndex = getQModelIndexStr("text='QQmlEngine'",
                                       ":Locals and Expressions_Debugger::Internal::WatchTreeView")
@@ -147,7 +148,9 @@ def main():
         doubleClick(waitForObject(mainRect))
         if not object.exists(":DebugModeWidget_Debugger::Internal::ConsoleView"):
             invokeMenuItem("Window", "Output Panes", "QML Debugger Console")
-        progressBarWait()
+        # Window might be too small to show Locals, so close what we don't need
+        for view in ("Stack", "Breakpoints", "Expressions"):
+            invokeMenuItem("Window", "Views", view)
         # color and float values have additional ZERO WIDTH SPACE (\u200b), different usage of
         # whitespaces inside expressions is part of the test
         checks = [("color", u"#\u200b008000"), ("width", "50"),