diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 508b9654a..21d4fa2a5 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ Language: en-US
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
+Config/testthat/parallel: true
 Config/Needs/website:
     rstudio/bslib,
     r-lib/pkgdown,