diff --git a/src/test/java/org/kohsuke/github/extras/okhttp3/OkHttpConnectorTest.java b/src/test/java/org/kohsuke/github/extras/okhttp3/OkHttpConnectorTest.java
index 1f6b3cafa0..792c199442 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/kohsuke/github/extras/okhttp3/OkHttpConnectorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/kohsuke/github/extras/okhttp3/OkHttpConnectorTest.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import okhttp3.Cache;
 import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.kohsuke.github.AbstractGitHubWireMockTest;
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ public OkHttpConnectorTest() {
     private static int maxAgeNoneHitCount = 11;
 
     private GHRateLimit rateLimitBefore;
+    private Cache cache = null;
 
     @Override
     protected WireMockConfiguration getWireMockOptions() {
@@ -88,6 +90,13 @@ public void setupRepo() throws Exception {
         }
     }
 
+    @After
+    public void deleteCache() throws IOException {
+        if (cache != null) {
+            cache.delete();
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void DefaultConnector() throws Exception {
 
@@ -120,7 +129,6 @@ public void OkHttpConnector_NoCache() throws Exception {
 
         checkRequestAndLimit(okhttpNetworkRequestCount, okhttpRateLimitUsed);
 
-        Cache cache = client.cache();
         assertThat("Cache", cache, is(nullValue()));
     }
 
@@ -147,8 +155,6 @@ public void OkHttpConnector_Cache_MaxAgeNone() throws Exception {
 
         checkRequestAndLimit(maxAgeNoneNetworkRequestCount, maxAgeNoneRateLimitUsed);
 
-        Cache cache = client.cache();
-
         // NOTE: this is actually bad.
         // This elevated hit count is the stale requests returning bad data took longer to detect a change.
         assertThat("getHitCount", cache.hitCount(), is(maxAgeNoneHitCount));
@@ -176,7 +182,6 @@ public void OkHttpConnector_Cache_MaxAge_Three() throws Exception {
 
         checkRequestAndLimit(maxAgeThreeNetworkRequestCount, maxAgeThreeRateLimitUsed);
 
-        Cache cache = client.cache();
         assertThat("getHitCount", cache.hitCount(), is(maxAgeThreeHitCount));
     }
 
@@ -202,7 +207,6 @@ public void OkHttpConnector_Cache_MaxAgeDefault_Zero() throws Exception {
 
         checkRequestAndLimit(maxAgeZeroNetworkRequestCount, maxAgeZeroRateLimitUsed);
 
-        Cache cache = client.cache();
         assertThat("getHitCount", cache.hitCount(), is(maxAgeZeroHitCount));
     }
 
@@ -228,7 +232,7 @@ private OkHttpClient createClient(boolean useCache) throws IOException {
             File cacheDir = new File("target/cache/" + baseFilesClassPath + "/" + mockGitHub.getMethodName());
             cacheDir.mkdirs();
             FileUtils.cleanDirectory(cacheDir);
-            Cache cache = new Cache(cacheDir, 100 * 1024L * 1024L);
+            cache = new Cache(cacheDir, 100 * 1024L * 1024L);
 
             builder.cache(cache);
         }