diff --git a/modules/percolator/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/percolator/PercolatorMatchedSlotSubFetchPhaseTests.java b/modules/percolator/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/percolator/PercolatorMatchedSlotSubFetchPhaseTests.java
index 89356bf274d..7d81df9323f 100644
--- a/modules/percolator/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/percolator/PercolatorMatchedSlotSubFetchPhaseTests.java
+++ b/modules/percolator/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/percolator/PercolatorMatchedSlotSubFetchPhaseTests.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.elasticsearch.percolator;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.core.WhitespaceAnalyzer;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.NumericDocValuesField;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.RandomIndexWriter;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TotalHits;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.FixedBitSet;
+import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.SeqNoFieldMapper;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchHit;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ESTestCase;
 
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ public class PercolatorMatchedSlotSubFetchPhaseTests extends ESTestCase {
                     PercolateQuery.QueryStore queryStore = ctx -> docId -> new TermQuery(new Term("field", "value"));
                     MemoryIndex memoryIndex = new MemoryIndex();
                     memoryIndex.addField("field", "value", new WhitespaceAnalyzer());
+                    memoryIndex.addField(new NumericDocValuesField(SeqNoFieldMapper.PRIMARY_TERM_NAME, 0), null);
                     PercolateQuery percolateQuery =  new PercolateQuery("_name", queryStore, Collections.emptyList(),
                         new MatchAllDocsQuery(), memoryIndex.createSearcher(), null, new MatchNoDocsQuery());
 
@@ -72,6 +75,7 @@ public class PercolatorMatchedSlotSubFetchPhaseTests extends ESTestCase {
                     PercolateQuery.QueryStore queryStore = ctx -> docId -> new TermQuery(new Term("field", "value"));
                     MemoryIndex memoryIndex = new MemoryIndex();
                     memoryIndex.addField("field", "value1", new WhitespaceAnalyzer());
+                    memoryIndex.addField(new NumericDocValuesField(SeqNoFieldMapper.PRIMARY_TERM_NAME, 0), null);
                     PercolateQuery percolateQuery =  new PercolateQuery("_name", queryStore, Collections.emptyList(),
                         new MatchAllDocsQuery(), memoryIndex.createSearcher(), null, new MatchNoDocsQuery());
 
@@ -85,6 +89,7 @@ public class PercolatorMatchedSlotSubFetchPhaseTests extends ESTestCase {
                     PercolateQuery.QueryStore queryStore = ctx -> docId -> null;
                     MemoryIndex memoryIndex = new MemoryIndex();
                     memoryIndex.addField("field", "value", new WhitespaceAnalyzer());
+                    memoryIndex.addField(new NumericDocValuesField(SeqNoFieldMapper.PRIMARY_TERM_NAME, 0), null);
                     PercolateQuery percolateQuery =  new PercolateQuery("_name", queryStore, Collections.emptyList(),
                         new MatchAllDocsQuery(), memoryIndex.createSearcher(), null, new MatchNoDocsQuery());