diff --git a/packages/unleash-api/package.json b/packages/unleash-api/package.json
index eb6e0dbcad..99b823f840 100644
--- a/packages/unleash-api/package.json
+++ b/packages/unleash-api/package.json
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
     "test": "export PORT=4243 ; mocha --recursive test && npm run test:coverage",
     "test:unit": "mocha test/unit/**/*.js ",
     "test:ci": "npm run db-migrate && npm run test",
+    "test:docker": "./scripts/docker-postgres.sh",
     "test:watch": "mocha --watch test test/*",
     "test:pg-virtualenv": "pg_virtualenv npm run test:pg-virtualenv-chai",
     "test:pg-virtualenv-chain": "export TEST_DATABASE_URL=postgres://$PGUSER:$PGPASSWORD@localhost:$PGPORT/postgres ; npm run db-migrate-testdb && npm test",
diff --git a/packages/unleash-api/scripts/docker-postgres.sh b/packages/unleash-api/scripts/docker-postgres.sh
index f89ae9b238..a9ddf21e14 100755
--- a/packages/unleash-api/scripts/docker-postgres.sh
+++ b/packages/unleash-api/scripts/docker-postgres.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ do
 done
 
 
-export TEST_DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:unleash@$database_host:$PGPORT/postgres
+export TEST_DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:$POSTGRES_PASSWORD@$database_host:$PGPORT/postgres
 
 npm install
 DATABASE_URL=$TEST_DATABASE_URL ./node_modules/.bin/db-migrate up