diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index ec4580ca..68b33b9f 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+buildscript {
+  repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+  }
+  dependencies {
+    // Add jaxen to buildscript classpath to prevent NoClassDefFoundError when shadow plugin interferes with
+    // ml-data-hub plugin execution. It is not yet known why the shadow plugin causes this problem or why it's
+    // specific to the jaxen library, but this resolves the problem.
+    classpath 'jaxen:jaxen:2.0.0'
+  }
+}
+
 plugins {
   id 'java'
   id 'net.saliman.properties' version '1.5.2'
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b45db2bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+---
+name: docker-tests-kafka-marklogic
+services:
+  marklogic:
+    image: "progressofficial/marklogic-db:latest-11"
+    platform: linux/amd64
+    environment:
+      - INSTALL_CONVERTERS=true
+      - MARKLOGIC_INIT=true
+      - MARKLOGIC_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin
+      - MARKLOGIC_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
+    volumes:
+      - ./docker/marklogic/logs:/var/opt/MarkLogic/Logs
+    ports:
+      - "8000-8002:8000-8002"
+      - "8010-8013:8010-8013"
+      - "8018-8019:8018-8019"
+    cap_drop:
+      - NET_RAW
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 7b86540a..65ba7581 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 rootProject.name = 'kafka-connect-marklogic'
 
+include "test-app"
diff --git a/test-app/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/test-app/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 249e5832..87b738cb 100644
Binary files a/test-app/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/test-app/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/test-app/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/test-app/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index e411586a..60436384 100644
--- a/test-app/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/test-app/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.1.1-bin.zip
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-bin.zip
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME