Node - Migrate postgres DB programmatically using jest globalsetup.js file - jestjs

Question

I am trying to use testcontainers(https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-node/tree/master/src/modules/postgresql) to spin up a postgres db and use that to run my jest tests.
I used globalsetup.js file to run the container spinup code. The container is spinning successfully, no problem in that, but the issue arises when i try to migrate the db. For Migrating i use typeorm's connection.runMigrations function. Somehow the migration is not working.
All my files, except globalsetup.js is a typescript file.
My connection string looks like this:
createConnection({
url: `postgres://${username}:${encodeURIComponent(password)}#${host}:${port}/${database}`
entities: process.env.TYPEORM_ENTITIES.split(‘,’),
migrations: process.env.TYPEORM_MIGRATIONS?.split(‘,’),
type: 'postgres,
});
TYPEORM_ENTITIES=src/db/entities/**/.ts
TYPEORM_MIGRATIONS=src/db/migrations/.ts
and in my jest.globalSetup.js:
const {createConnection} = require('typeorm')
module.exports = async () => {
/* Code for Container Startup */
process.env.NODE_ENV = ‘test’;
const connection = await createConnection({
url: `postgres://uno-test:dia#localhost:${process.env.TYPEORM_PORT}/cart-test?sslmode=disable`,
entities: process.env.TYPEORM_ENTITIES.split(‘,’),
migrations: process.env.TYPEORM_MIGRATIONS?.split(‘,’),
type: ‘postgres’,
});
await connection
.runMigrations()
.then((value) => console.log(‘Migration Done’, value))
.catch((e) => console.log(e));
await connection
.close()
};
Error Message is:
import { Column, CreateDateColumn, Entity, PrimaryGeneratedColumn, UpdateDateColumn } from ‘typeorm’;
^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:352:18)
at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1033:15)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1069:27)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
at /Users/webmaster/CART/cart-portal-service/node_modules/typeorm/util/ImportUtils.js:29:52
at step (/Users/webmaster/CART/cart-portal-service/node_modules/tslib/tslib.js:144:27)
I tried changing the entities and migrations constants to
TYPEORM_ENTITIES=src/db/entities/**/.{ts,js}
TYPEORM_MIGRATIONS=src/db/migrations/.{ts,js}
If i do above chagne, I no longer see the error, but my db is empty as in no tables are created.
Versions:
Node - 16.6.0
Typeorm - 0.2.45
typescript: 4.7.4
jest: 28.1.3