diff --git a/test/tests/dotted-environment-variables/container.java b/test/tests/dotted-environment-variables/container.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..de94c36f02784
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tests/dotted-environment-variables/container.java
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+public class container {
+	/**
+	 * Check if dotted env vars are supported.
+	 */
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		// get value of variable.with.a.dot and print it out
+		String value = System.getenv("variable.with.a.dot");
+		System.out.println(value);
+		System.exit(0);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/test/tests/dotted-environment-variables/expected-std-out.txt b/test/tests/dotted-environment-variables/expected-std-out.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f0a7151bbeae9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tests/dotted-environment-variables/expected-std-out.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+a.dotted.value
diff --git a/test/tests/dotted-environment-variables/run.sh b/test/tests/dotted-environment-variables/run.sh
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000000..7a0c67fbd4297
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tests/dotted-environment-variables/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../run-java-in-container.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/tests/run-java-in-container.sh b/test/tests/run-java-in-container.sh
index 48d941966f9e7..a6b030737e522 100755
--- a/test/tests/run-java-in-container.sh
+++ b/test/tests/run-java-in-container.sh
@@ -51,4 +51,9 @@ COPY --from=jdk /container /container
 WORKDIR /container
 EOD
 
-docker run --rm "$newImage" java -cp . container
+# if testDir contains dotted-environment-variables we need to add an environment variable to the docker run command
+if [[ "$testDir" == *"dotted-environment-variables"* ]]; then
+  docker run --rm -e "variable.with.a.dot=a.dotted.value" "$newImage" java -cp . container
+else
+  docker run --rm "$newImage" java -cp . container
+fi