diff --git a/ingestion/tests/cli_e2e/base/test_cli_db.py b/ingestion/tests/cli_e2e/base/test_cli_db.py
index 16cf71978620..96ae232545bd 100644
--- a/ingestion/tests/cli_e2e/base/test_cli_db.py
+++ b/ingestion/tests/cli_e2e/base/test_cli_db.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 import pytest
 from pydantic import TypeAdapter
+from tenacity import retry, retry_if_exception_type, stop_after_attempt, wait_fixed
 
 from _openmetadata_testutils.pydantic.test_utils import assert_equal_pydantic_objects
 from metadata.data_quality.api.models import TestCaseDefinition
@@ -223,14 +224,35 @@ def test_lineage(self) -> None:
             if hasattr(self, "get_service_type"):
                 service_type = self.get_service_type()
 
+            # Metadata ingest runs once; the lineage ingest is retried separately
+            # because DB audit logs (BigQuery INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS_BY_PROJECT,
+            # MSSQL sys.dm_exec_query_stats, Postgres pg_stat_statements) have
+            # eventual consistency — newly executed queries may not appear for
+            # 30-120s, causing the first lineage run to return 0 records.
             self.run_command()
-            self.build_config_file(
-                E2EType.LINEAGE,
-                {"source": f"{service_type}-lineage", **self.get_lineage_config_args()},
+
+            # Re-run the full lineage ingest + assert on each retry so that the
+            # ingestion re-reads the audit log (which may now be populated) and
+            # writes fresh lineage edges to OpenMetadata before asserting.
+            @retry(
+                retry=retry_if_exception_type((AssertionError, IndexError)),
+                wait=wait_fixed(30),
+                stop=stop_after_attempt(3),
+                reraise=True,
             )
-            result = self.run_command()
-            sink_status, source_status = self.retrieve_statuses(result)
-            self.assert_for_test_lineage(source_status, sink_status)
+            def _run_lineage_and_assert() -> None:
+                self.build_config_file(
+                    E2EType.LINEAGE,
+                    {
+                        "source": f"{service_type}-lineage",
+                        **self.get_lineage_config_args(),
+                    },
+                )
+                result = self.run_command()
+                sink_status, source_status = self.retrieve_statuses(result)
+                self.assert_for_test_lineage(source_status, sink_status)
+
+            _run_lineage_and_assert()
 
         @pytest.mark.order(12)
         def test_profiler_with_time_partition(self) -> None: