"Jest failed to parse a file" ... "SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module"

Today i started a new project from scratch using JEST and to my surprised i encountered this error when trying to create a server using MongoMemoryServer on my beforeEach hook.

Do i have to tweak something on jest config to make it work? I have used this setup before with an older version of mongodb-memory-server and it worked like a charm… Something must have changed either on mongodb-memory-server or i haven’t noticed

jest.config

/** @type {import('ts-jest/dist/types').InitialOptionsTsJest} */
module.exports = {
  preset: "ts-jest",
  testEnvironment: "node",
  roots: ["<rootDir>/src"],
  // the following line is needed in order to grab modules from the
  // src folder without the need to write them relatively
  moduleDirectories: ["node_modules", "src"],
};

typescript test file

...
describe("POST /my-end-point", () => {
  beforeAll(async () => {
    mongod = await MongoMemoryServer.create();
    // const uri = mongod.getUri();
    // await ConnectMongoose(uri);
  });
  ...
}

error

… " Jest failed to parse a file. This happens e.g. when your code or its dependencies use non-standard JavaScript syntax, or when Jest is not configured to support such syntax." … … “/home/…/node_modules/mongodb-memory-server-core/node_modules/mongodb/src/bson.ts:1 ({“Object.<anonymous>”:function(module,exports,require,__dirname,__filename,jest){import type {”“”