diff --git a/tests/js/jest.config.json b/tests/js/jest.config.json
index b6b42b4b830..797634d908f 100644
--- a/tests/js/jest.config.json
+++ b/tests/js/jest.config.json
@@ -15,5 +15,8 @@
     "node_modules/(?!(simple-html-tokenizer)/)"
   ],
   "preset": "@wordpress/jest-preset-default",
+  "transform": {
+    "^.+\\.js$": "<rootDir>/tests/js/jestPreprocess.js"
+  },
   "verbose": true
 }
diff --git a/tests/js/jestPreprocess.js b/tests/js/jestPreprocess.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f733f199360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/js/jestPreprocess.js
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+const babelOptions = {
+	presets: [ '@wordpress/babel-preset-default' ],
+};
+
+module.exports = require( 'babel-jest' ).createTransformer( babelOptions );