diff --git a/connect/runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/runtime/isolation/DelegatingClassLoaderTest.java b/connect/runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/runtime/isolation/DelegatingClassLoaderTest.java
index 3e346bb82..fe76fde1b 100644
--- a/connect/runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/runtime/isolation/DelegatingClassLoaderTest.java
+++ b/connect/runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/runtime/isolation/DelegatingClassLoaderTest.java
@@ -17,11 +17,15 @@
 
 package org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.isolation;
 
-import java.util.Collections;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collections;
+
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 public class DelegatingClassLoaderTest {
@@ -61,4 +65,14 @@ public class DelegatingClassLoaderTest {
             assertNotNull(classLoader.pluginClassLoader(pluginClassName));
         }
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testLoad() throws IOException {
+        File file = File.createTempFile("testLoad", ".jar");
+        try (FileOutputStream writer = new FileOutputStream(file)) {
+            writer.write("testLoad".getBytes());
+        }
+        DelegatingClassLoader classLoader = new DelegatingClassLoader(Collections.singletonList(file.getAbsolutePath()));
+        classLoader.initLoaders();
+    }
 }