diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 379cc503dbd..da6a8177e2e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ script:
     $( exit ${TEST_EXIT_VALUE} );
   else
     ./gatk PrintReads -I src/test/resources/NA12878.chr17_69k_70k.dictFix.bam -O output.bam;
-    travis_wait 50 ./gradlew jacocoTestReport;
+    travis_wait 50 ./gradlew -Dscala.version=${SCALA_VERSION} jacocoTestReport;
   fi;
 # This creates and uploads the gatk zip file to the nightly build bucket, only keeping the 10 newest entries
 # This also constructs the Docker image and uploads it to https://cloud.docker.com/u/broadinstitute/repository/docker/broadinstitute/gatk-nightly/