diff --git a/system_test/logging.conf b/system_test/logging.conf
index e9e9213..afc024d 100644
--- a/system_test/logging.conf
+++ b/system_test/logging.conf
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ propagate=0
 # ==============================================
 [handler_namedConsoleHandler]
 class=StreamHandler
-level=INFO
+level=DEBUG
 formatter=namedFormatter
 args=[]
 
diff --git a/system_test/replication_testsuite/replica_basic_test.py b/system_test/replication_testsuite/replica_basic_test.py
index 3fc47d9..bf6898e 100644
--- a/system_test/replication_testsuite/replica_basic_test.py
+++ b/system_test/replication_testsuite/replica_basic_test.py
@@ -397,7 +397,8 @@ class ReplicaBasicTest(ReplicationUtils, SetupUtils):
                 if logRetentionTest.lower() == "false":
                     self.log_message("starting consumer in the background")
                     kafka_system_test_utils.start_console_consumer(self.systemTestEnv, self.testcaseEnv)
-                    time.sleep(10)
+                    self.anonLogger.info("sleeping for 60s")
+                    time.sleep(60)
                     
                 # =============================================
                 # this testcase is completed - stop all entities
diff --git a/system_test/replication_testsuite/testcase_0011/testcase_0011_properties.json b/system_test/replication_testsuite/testcase_0011/testcase_0011_properties.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..32c66fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system_test/replication_testsuite/testcase_0011/testcase_0011_properties.json
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+{
+  "description": {"01":"Replication Basic : 1. auto create topic => true",
+                  "02":"Produce and consume messages to a single topic - 3 partitions.",
+                  "03":"This test sends messages to 3 replicas",
+                  "04":"At the end it verifies the log size and contents",
+                  "05":"Use a consumer to verify no message loss.",
+                  "06":"Producer dimensions : mode:async, acks:1, comp:1",
+                  "07":"Log segment size    : 1048576 (1M)"
+  },
+  "testcase_args": {
+    "broker_type": "leader",
+    "bounce_broker": "false",
+    "replica_factor": "3",
+    "num_partition": "2",
+    "num_iteration": "1",
+    "auto_create_topic": "true",
+    "sleep_seconds_between_producer_calls": "1",
+    "message_producing_free_time_sec": "15",
+    "num_topics_for_auto_generated_string": "250",
+    "consumer_multi_topics_mode": "true",
+    "num_messages_to_produce_per_producer_call": "50"
+  },
+  "entities": [
+    {
+      "entity_id": "0",
+      "clientPort": "2188",
+      "dataDir": "/tmp/zookeeper_0",
+      "log_filename": "zookeeper_2188.log",
+      "config_filename": "zookeeper_2188.properties"
+    },
+    {
+      "entity_id": "1",
+      "port": "9091",
+      "broker.id": "1",
+      "num.partitions": "3",
+      "default.replication.factor": "3",
+      "log.segment.size": "1048576",
+      "log.dir": "/tmp/kafka_server_1_logs",
+      "log_filename": "kafka_server_9091.log",
+      "config_filename": "kafka_server_9091.properties"
+    },
+    {
+      "entity_id": "2",
+      "port": "9092",
+      "broker.id": "2",
+      "num.partitions": "3",
+      "default.replication.factor": "3",
+      "log.segment.size": "1048576",
+      "log.dir": "/tmp/kafka_server_2_logs",
+      "log_filename": "kafka_server_9092.log",
+      "config_filename": "kafka_server_9092.properties"
+    },
+    {
+      "entity_id": "3",
+      "port": "9093",
+      "broker.id": "3",
+      "num.partitions": "3",
+      "default.replication.factor": "3",
+      "log.segment.size": "1048576",
+      "log.dir": "/tmp/kafka_server_3_logs",
+      "log_filename": "kafka_server_9093.log",
+      "config_filename": "kafka_server_9093.properties"
+    },
+    {
+      "entity_id": "4",
+      "topic": "test_1",
+      "threads": "5",
+      "compression-codec": "1",
+      "message-size": "500",
+      "message": "100",
+      "request-num-acks": "1",
+      "sync":"false",
+      "log_filename": "producer_performance.log",
+      "config_filename": "producer_performance.properties"
+    },
+    {
+      "entity_id": "5",
+      "topic": "test_1",
+      "groupid": "mytestgroup",
+      "consumer-timeout-ms": "10000",
+      "zookeeper": "localhost:2188",
+      "log_filename": "console_consumer.log",
+      "config_filename": "console_consumer.properties"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/system_test/testcase_to_run.json b/system_test/testcase_to_run.json
index 8252860..578e1a2 100644
--- a/system_test/testcase_to_run.json
+++ b/system_test/testcase_to_run.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
     "ReplicaBasicTest"   : [
-        "testcase_0001"
+        "testcase_0011"
     ]
 }