diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery_test.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery_test.py
index c263b636b57a..435fe67d02fc 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery_test.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery_test.py
@@ -2278,10 +2278,13 @@ def store_callback(table, **kwargs):
               num_streaming_keys=500))
 
     with open(file_name_1) as f1, open(file_name_2) as f2:
-      out1 = json.load(f1)
-      self.assertEqual(out1['colA_values'], ['value1', 'value3'])
-      out2 = json.load(f2)
-      self.assertEqual(out2['colA_values'], ['value5'])
+      out1 = json.load(f1)['colA_values']
+      out2 = json.load(f2)['colA_values']
+      out_all = out1 + out2
+      out_all.sort()
+      self.assertEqual(out_all, ['value1', 'value3', 'value5'])
+      self.assertEqual(len(out1), 2)
+      self.assertEqual(len(out2), 1)
 
 
 @unittest.skipIf(HttpError is None, 'GCP dependencies are not installed')