diff --git a/jest.config.js b/jest.config.js
index e439e966dc4..6b8a9b28e04 100644
--- a/jest.config.js
+++ b/jest.config.js
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ module.exports = {
     },
   },
   moduleDirectories: ['node_modules', 'jest', __dirname],
+  moduleFileExtensions: [ 'js', 'jsx', 'ts', 'tsx',  'yaml' ],
   moduleNameMapper: {
     '\\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|eot|otf|webp|svg|ttf|woff|woff2|mp4|webm|wav|mp3|m4a|aac|oga)$':
       '<rootDir>/__mocks__/fileMock.js',
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ module.exports = {
   transform: {
     '.+\\.(css|styl|less|sass|scss)$': 'jest-css-modules-transform',
     '\\.[jt]sx?$': 'babel-jest',
+    '\\.yaml$': 'yaml-jest',
   },
   transformIgnorePatterns: ['<rootDir>/node_modules/?!(@material)/'],
 };
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 3809232ea6e..ca8b7a40174 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@
     "url-loader": "3.0.0",
     "webpack": "4.41.2",
     "webpack-cli": "3.3.10",
-    "webpack-livereload-plugin": "2.2.0"
+    "webpack-livereload-plugin": "2.2.0",
+    "yaml-jest": "^1.2.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@ajainarayanan/react-pan-zoom": "0.0.4",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index f151dc86ac2..22b89ccb901 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -23313,6 +23313,13 @@ yallist@^4.0.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/yallist/-/yallist-4.0.0.tgz#9bb92790d9c0effec63be73519e11a35019a3a72"
   integrity sha512-3wdGidZyq5PB084XLES5TpOSRA3wjXAlIWMhum2kRcv/41Sn2emQ0dycQW4uZXLejwKvg6EsvbdlVL+FYEct7A==
 
+yaml-jest@^1.2.0:
+  version "1.2.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/yaml-jest/-/yaml-jest-1.2.0.tgz#5e863a8c3ce5aa7b9f63e12f8bffd6e2e47b4bf7"
+  integrity sha512-rrUNn3ovs5J8td7i3k6rJfh3leBydnM+3YqKJcVyTFRiSiEAdKMy7uhqBxJfsJ+w1le5AGCkMTldNEMY8oqbPg==
+  dependencies:
+    js-yaml "^4.1.0"
+
 yaml@^1.10.0:
   version "1.10.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/yaml/-/yaml-1.10.2.tgz#2301c5ffbf12b467de8da2333a459e29e7920e4b"