diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
index 21d07a1a263..aef3a05392b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
@@ -982,6 +982,7 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-ptest-packages = "\
     poco-ptest \
     cmocka-ptest \
     minicoredumper-ptest \
+    hiredis-ptest \
 "
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-ptest-packages:append:x86 = " mcelog-ptest"
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-ptest-packages:append:x86-64 = " mcelog-ptest"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis/run-ptest b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..59b747dbd82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+TEST_SSL=0 TEST_ASYNC=0 ./test.sh
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis_1.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis_1.1.0.bb
index ceae9a457a5..b3814afc716 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis_1.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hiredis/hiredis_1.1.0.bb
@@ -4,16 +4,36 @@ SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d84d659a35c666d23233e54503aaea51"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/redis/hiredis;protocol=https;branch=master"
+SRC_URI = " \
+    git://github.com/redis/hiredis;protocol=https;branch=master \
+    file://run-ptest \
+    "
 SRCREV = "c14775b4e48334e0262c9f168887578f4a368b5d"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-inherit cmake
+inherit cmake ptest
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "ssl"
+# 'testssl' is not enabled by default as redis recipe does not build with ssl support
+# option 'testssl' requires 'ssl'
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "ssl ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ptest', 'test testasync', '', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[ssl] = "-DENABLE_SSL=ON, -DENABLE_SSL=OFF, openssl"
+PACKAGECONFIG[test] = "-DDISABLE_TESTS=OFF, -DDISABLE_TESTS=ON"
+PACKAGECONFIG[testssl] = "-DENABLE_SSL_TESTS=ON, -DENABLE_SSL_TESTS=OFF, openssl"
+PACKAGECONFIG[testasync] = "-DENABLE_ASYNC_TESTS=ON, -DENABLE_ASYNC_TESTS=OFF, libevent"
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+    install ${S}/test.sh ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
+    install ${B}/hiredis-test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
+    if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','testssl','true','false',d)}; then
+        sed -i 's/TEST_SSL=0/TEST_SSL=1/g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
+    fi
+    if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','testasync','true','false',d)}; then
+        sed -i 's/TEST_ASYNC=0/TEST_ASYNC=1/g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
+    fi
+}
 
 FILES:${PN}-dev += "${datadir}/hiredis_ssl ${prefix}/build"
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "redis"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'testssl', 'openssl-bin', '', d)}"