diff --git a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/components/TableCollection/index.tsx b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/components/TableCollection/index.tsx
index b9e00f5940f..6c1ca38a131 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/components/TableCollection/index.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/components/TableCollection/index.tsx
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-import { HTMLAttributes, memo, useMemo, useCallback } from 'react';
+import { HTMLAttributes, ReactNode, memo, useMemo, useCallback } from 'react';
 import {
   ColumnInstance,
   HeaderGroup,
@@ -196,6 +196,11 @@ function TableCollection<T extends object>({
   const rowSelection: TableRowSelection | undefined = useMemo(() => {
     if (!bulkSelectEnabled) return undefined;
 
+    // antd Table's `rowSelection` API renders its own checkbox column;
+    // wrap the header and per-row checkboxes with stable `data-test`
+    // attributes so Playwright selectors (which previously targeted
+    // `bulkSelectColumnConfig` in ListView — a column that no longer
+    // reaches the rendered DOM) can resolve them.
     return {
       selectedRowKeys,
       onSelect: (record, selected) => {
@@ -204,6 +209,12 @@ function TableCollection<T extends object>({
       onSelectAll: (selected: boolean) => {
         toggleAllRowsSelected?.(selected);
       },
+      columnTitle: (originNode: ReactNode) => (
+        <span data-test="header-toggle-all">{originNode}</span>
+      ),
+      renderCell: (_value, _record, _index, originNode) => (
+        <span data-test="row-select-checkbox">{originNode}</span>
+      ),
     };
   }, [
     bulkSelectEnabled,
diff --git a/superset-frontend/playwright/components/ListView/BulkSelect.ts b/superset-frontend/playwright/components/ListView/BulkSelect.ts
index 94f52d7885a..0187fe6b8db 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/playwright/components/ListView/BulkSelect.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/playwright/components/ListView/BulkSelect.ts
@@ -68,18 +68,15 @@ export class BulkSelect {
   /**
    * Enables bulk selection mode by clicking the toggle button.
    *
-   * Waits for the bulk-select column header checkbox to be present in the
-   * DOM (state: 'attached') so the next row interaction does not race the
-   * table re-render that adds the checkbox column. We can't wait for
-   * 'visible' because `data-test="header-toggle-all"` ends up on antd's
-   * inner `<input>`, which renders with opacity:0 and a zero bounding box
-   * — never "visible" by Playwright's definition.
+   * Waits for the bulk-select column header to render so the next row
+   * interaction does not race the table re-render that adds the checkbox
+   * column. The `data-test="header-toggle-all"` attribute is on a wrapper
+   * span around antd's select-all checkbox (see `TableCollection`'s
+   * `rowSelection.columnTitle`), which is a real visible element.
    */
   async enable(): Promise<void> {
     await this.getToggleButton().click();
-    await this.page
-      .locator(BULK_SELECT_SELECTORS.HEADER_TOGGLE)
-      .waitFor({ state: 'attached' });
+    await this.page.locator(BULK_SELECT_SELECTORS.HEADER_TOGGLE).waitFor();
   }
 
   /**