Quarkus gradle test fails

I am trying to run the simple 'getting-started'-type gradle project with quarkus and my unit test fails everytime with this error

Caused by: io.quarkus.bootstrap.BootstrapException: Failed to locate project pom.xml for C:\Users\myuser\IdeaProjects\myproj\build\classes\java\main

Followed instructions here https://quarkus.io/guides/gradle-tooling Any suggestions or thoughts on what is going on?

Gradle version details

Gradle 5.4

Build time:   2019-04-16 02:44:16 UTC
Revision:     a4f3f91a30d4e36d82cc7592c4a0726df52aba0d

Kotlin:       1.3.21
Groovy:       2.5.4
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.13 compiled on July 10 2018
JVM:          11.0.2 (Oracle Corporation 11.0.2+9)
OS:           Windows 10 10.0 amd64