diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/WebCmdlet/ConvertToJsonCommand.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/WebCmdlet/ConvertToJsonCommand.cs
index d179a8c4feb..1de50798b42 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/WebCmdlet/ConvertToJsonCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/commands/utility/WebCmdlet/ConvertToJsonCommand.cs
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ private object ProcessValue(object obj, int depth)
             else
             {
                 TypeInfo t = obj.GetType().GetTypeInfo();
+                WriteVerbose(StringUtil.Format(UtilityCommonStrings.ConvertToJsonProcessValueVerboseMessage, t.Name, depth));
 
                 if (t.IsPrimitive)
                 {
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/resources/UtilityCommonStrings.resx b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/resources/UtilityCommonStrings.resx
index 551f0d1fcb8..1cfd4750a3e 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/resources/UtilityCommonStrings.resx
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility/resources/UtilityCommonStrings.resx
@@ -174,4 +174,7 @@
   <data name="InvalidSDDL" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>Cannot construct a security descriptor from the given SDDL due to the following error: {0}</value>
   </data>
+  <data name="ConvertToJsonProcessValueVerboseMessage" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Processing object of type [{0}] at depth {1}</value>
+  </data>
 </root>
diff --git a/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/ConvertTo-Json.Tests.ps1 b/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/ConvertTo-Json.Tests.ps1
index 198cccf5964..8de65fe9e15 100644
--- a/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/ConvertTo-Json.Tests.ps1
+++ b/test/powershell/Modules/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/ConvertTo-Json.Tests.ps1
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Describe 'ConvertTo-Json' -tags "CI" {
         })
         $null = $ps.BeginInvoke()
         # wait for verbose message from ConvertTo-Json to ensure cmdlet is processing
-        Wait-UntilTrue { $ps.Streams.Verbose.Count -gt 0 }
+        Wait-UntilTrue { $ps.Streams.Verbose.Count -gt 0 } | Should -BeTrue
         $null = $ps.BeginStop($null, $null)
         # wait a bit to ensure state has changed, not using synchronous Stop() to avoid blocking Pester
         Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100