diff --git a/.kokoro/nightly/bigquery-storage-it.cfg b/.kokoro/nightly/bigquery-storage-it.cfg
index 3ec55dd2af06..719edf82457d 100644
--- a/.kokoro/nightly/bigquery-storage-it.cfg
+++ b/.kokoro/nightly/bigquery-storage-it.cfg
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ env_vars: {
 
 env_vars: {
     key: "INTEGRATION_TEST_ARGS"
-    value: "google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage"
+    value: "google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage -Dbigquery.storage.enable_long_running_tests=true"
 }
 
 env_vars: {
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/storage/v1beta1/it/ITBigQueryStorageLongRunningTest.java b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/storage/v1beta1/it/ITBigQueryStorageLongRunningTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5f6df6ab361c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/storage/v1beta1/it/ITBigQueryStorageLongRunningTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2019 Google LLC
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.google.cloud.bigquery.storage.v1beta1.it;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import com.google.api.gax.rpc.ServerStream;
+import com.google.cloud.ServiceOptions;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.storage.v1beta1.BigQueryStorageClient;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.storage.v1beta1.Storage.ReadRowsRequest;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.storage.v1beta1.Storage.ReadRowsResponse;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.storage.v1beta1.Storage.ReadSession;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.storage.v1beta1.Storage.Stream;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.storage.v1beta1.Storage.StreamPosition;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.storage.v1beta1.TableReferenceProto.TableReference;
+import com.google.protobuf.TextFormat;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.Future;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+import org.junit.AfterClass;
+import org.junit.Assume;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Integration tests for BigQuery Storage API which target long running sessions. These tests can be
+ * enabled by setting the system property 'bigquery.storage.enable_long_running_tests' to true.
+ */
+public class ITBigQueryStorageLongRunningTest {
+
+  private static final Logger LOG =
+      Logger.getLogger(ITBigQueryStorageLongRunningTest.class.getName());
+
+  private static final String LONG_TESTS_ENABLED_PROPERTY =
+      "bigquery.storage.enable_long_running_tests";
+
+  private static final String LONG_TESTS_DISABLED_MESSAGE =
+      String.format(
+          "BigQuery Storage long running tests are not enabled and will be skipped. "
+              + "To enable them, set system property '%s' to true.",
+          LONG_TESTS_ENABLED_PROPERTY);
+
+  private static BigQueryStorageClient client;
+  private static String parentProjectId;
+
+  @BeforeClass
+  public static void beforeClass() throws IOException {
+    Assume.assumeTrue(LONG_TESTS_DISABLED_MESSAGE, Boolean.getBoolean(LONG_TESTS_ENABLED_PROPERTY));
+    client = BigQueryStorageClient.create();
+    parentProjectId = String.format("projects/%s", ServiceOptions.getDefaultProjectId());
+
+    LOG.info(
+        String.format(
+            "%s tests running with parent project: %s",
+            ITBigQueryStorageLongRunningTest.class.getSimpleName(), parentProjectId));
+  }
+
+  @AfterClass
+  public static void afterClass() {
+    if (client != null) {
+      client.close();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testLongRunningReadSession() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException {
+    // This test reads a larger table with the goal of doing a simple validation of timeout settings
+    // for a longer running session.
+
+    TableReference tableReference =
+        TableReference.newBuilder()
+            .setProjectId("bigquery-public-data")
+            .setDatasetId("samples")
+            .setTableId("wikipedia")
+            .build();
+
+    ReadSession session =
+        client.createReadSession(
+            /* tableReference = */ tableReference,
+            /* parent = */ parentProjectId,
+            /* requestedStreams = */ 5);
+    assertEquals(
+        String.format(
+            "Did not receive expected number of streams for table reference '%s' CreateReadSession response:%n%s",
+            TextFormat.shortDebugString(tableReference), session.toString()),
+        5,
+        session.getStreamsCount());
+
+    List<Callable<Long>> tasks = new ArrayList<>(session.getStreamsCount());
+    for (final Stream stream : session.getStreamsList()) {
+      tasks.add(
+          new Callable<Long>() {
+            @Override
+            public Long call() throws Exception {
+              return readAllRowsFromStream(stream);
+            }
+          });
+    }
+
+    ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(tasks.size());
+    List<Future<Long>> results = executor.invokeAll(tasks);
+
+    long avroRowCount = 0;
+    for (Future<Long> result : results) {
+      avroRowCount += result.get();
+    }
+
+    assertEquals(313_797_035, avroRowCount);
+  }
+
+  private long readAllRowsFromStream(Stream stream) {
+    StreamPosition readPosition = StreamPosition.newBuilder().setStream(stream).build();
+
+    ReadRowsRequest readRowsRequest =
+        ReadRowsRequest.newBuilder().setReadPosition(readPosition).build();
+
+    long avroRowCount = 0;
+    ServerStream<ReadRowsResponse> serverStream = client.readRowsCallable().call(readRowsRequest);
+    for (ReadRowsResponse response : serverStream) {
+      assertTrue(
+          String.format(
+              "Response is missing 'avro_rows'. Read %d rows so far from stream '%s'. ReadRows response:%n%s",
+              avroRowCount, stream.getName(), response.toString()),
+          response.hasAvroRows());
+      avroRowCount += response.getAvroRows().getRowCount();
+    }
+
+    LOG.info(
+        String.format("Read total of %d rows from stream '%s'.", avroRowCount, stream.getName()));
+    return avroRowCount;
+  }
+}