diff --git a/tests/count_paired_wide_contig.tsv b/tests/count_paired_wide_contig.tsv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f9be476d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/count_paired_wide_contig.tsv
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+gene	count
+AAC73112	14
+AAC73113	50
diff --git a/tests/paired_contig.bam b/tests/paired_contig.bam
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d04b988f
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/paired_contig.bam differ
diff --git a/tests/tests.yaml b/tests/tests.yaml
index de6024f9..d7538567 100644
--- a/tests/tests.yaml
+++ b/tests/tests.yaml
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ count_tab_single:
       references: [count_tab.tsv]
       options: count_tab -L test.log
 
+count_paired_wide_contig:
+      stdin: paired_contig.bam
+      outputs: [stdout]
+      references: [count_paired_wide_contig.tsv]
+      options: count -L test.log  --random-seed=123456789 --method=directional --per-contig --paired --umi-separator="|" --wide-format-cell-counts
+
 # python 2 tests ##
 
 dedup_single_ignore: