diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index f3fdededf6..51b29cf17e 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ PTESTS_SLOW = "\
     python3-cffi \
     python3-click \
     python3-cryptography \
+    python3-numpy \
     python3-xmltodict \
     strace \
     tar \
@@ -143,7 +144,6 @@ PTESTS_SLOW:append:libc-musl = " libc-test"
 #    libpam \ # Needs pam DISTRO_FEATURE
 #    mdadm \ # tests are flaky in AB.
 #    numactl \ # qemu not (yet) configured for numa; all tests are skipped
-#    python3-numpy \ # requires even more RAM and (possibly) disk space; multiple failures
 
 PTESTS_PROBLEMS = "\
     ruby \
@@ -155,5 +155,4 @@ PTESTS_PROBLEMS = "\
     mdadm \
     numactl \
     python3-license-expression \
-    python3-numpy \
 "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
index a0ff8d9528..73270d1067 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
@@ -27,11 +27,15 @@ IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE:virtclass-mcextend-lttng-tools = "1524288"
 # tar-ptest in particular needs more space
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE:virtclass-mcextend-tar = "1524288"
 
+# python3-numpy-ptest requires a lot of extra space
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE:virtclass-mcextend-python3-numpy = "3048576"
+
 # ptests need more memory than standard to avoid the OOM killer
 QB_MEM = "-m 1024"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-lttng-tools = "-m 4096"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-python3 = "-m 2048"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-python3-cryptography = "-m 5100"
+QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-python3-numpy = "-m 4096"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-tcl = "-m 5100"
 
 TEST_SUITES = "ping ssh parselogs ptest"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest
index 9a1c72aeb1..6e76dffc59 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#!/bin/sh
 
-import numpy
-numpy.test(label='full', verbose=2)
+# By default, numpy will use /tmp as the root path for temporary files used
+# during tests, but if this is a tmpfs it may fill up quickly and cause many of
+# the tests to report "no space left on device" errors. Create a custom
+# directory for these and point pytest at it so we can take advantage of the
+# storage provided in the rootfs.
+export PYTEST_DEBUG_TEMPROOT="/usr/lib/python3-numpy/ptest/tmp"
+mkdir -p "$PYTEST_DEBUG_TEMPROOT"
 
+# test_mem_policy fails if there's no C compiler present, but we don't want to
+# include gcc as a ptest dependency, so skip that. test_big_arrays uses up a
+# large amount of storage, so skip that too.
+pytest --automake -m "not slow" -k "not test_mem_policy and not test_big_arrays" /usr/lib/python3.*/site-packages/numpy
+rm -rf "$PYTEST_DEBUG_TEMPROOT"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb
index c6a37c0a85..f963e15b83 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb
@@ -41,32 +41,36 @@ FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/numpy/_core/lib/*.a \
 "
 
 # install what is needed for numpy.test()
-RDEPENDS:${PN} = "python3-unittest \
-                  python3-difflib \
-                  python3-pprint \
-                  python3-pickle \
-                  python3-shell \
-                  python3-doctest \
-                  python3-datetime \
-                  python3-misc \
-                  python3-mmap \
-                  python3-netclient \
-                  python3-numbers \
-                  python3-pydoc \
-                  python3-pkgutil \
-                  python3-email \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
                   python3-compression \
                   python3-ctypes \
-                  python3-threading \
-                  python3-multiprocessing \
+                  python3-datetime \
+                  python3-difflib \
+                  python3-doctest \
+                  python3-email \
                   python3-json \
+                  python3-misc \
+                  python3-mmap \
+                  python3-multiprocessing \
+                  python3-netclient \
+                  python3-numbers \
+                  python3-pickle \
+                  python3-pkgutil \
+                  python3-pprint \
+                  python3-pydoc \
+                  python3-shell \
+                  python3-threading \
+                  python3-unittest \
 "
-RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "python3-pytest \
-                         python3-hypothesis \
-                         python3-sortedcontainers \
-                         python3-resource \
-                         python3-typing-extensions \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "\
                          ldd \
+                         meson \
+                         python3-hypothesis \
+                         python3-pytest \
+                         python3-resource \
+                         python3-sortedcontainers \
+                         python3-typing-extensions \
+                         python3-unittest-automake-output \
 "
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"