diff --git a/.circleci/bazel.rc b/.circleci/bazel.rc
index 5b9322a8eb..0b2f3136a3 100644
--- a/.circleci/bazel.rc
+++ b/.circleci/bazel.rc
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@ build --verbose_failures=true
 # > Example job: https://circleci.com/gh/angular/angular/385517
 # We expect that TypeScript compilations will parallelize wider than the number of local cores anyway
 # so we should saturate remote workers with TS compilations
---strategy=TypeScriptCompile=standalone
---strategy=AngularTemplateCompile=standalone
+build --strategy=TypeScriptCompile=standalone
+build --strategy=AngularTemplateCompile=standalone
diff --git a/packages/core/test/strict_types/BUILD.bazel b/packages/core/test/strict_types/BUILD.bazel
index d33360a60e..c5a4e33792 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/strict_types/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/packages/core/test/strict_types/BUILD.bazel
@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
 package(default_visibility = ["//visibility:private"])
 
+load("@npm_bazel_typescript//:index.bzl", "ts_config")
 load("//tools:defaults.bzl", "jasmine_node_test", "ts_library")
 
+ts_config(
+    name = "tsconfig",
+    src = "tsconfig.json",
+    deps = [
+        "//tools:tsconfig-test",
+    ],
+)
+
 ts_library(
     name = "strict_types_lib",
     testonly = True,
     srcs = glob(
         ["**/*.ts"],
     ),
-    tsconfig = ":tsconfig.json",
+    tsconfig = ":tsconfig",
     deps = [
         "//packages/core",
     ],
diff --git a/tools/BUILD.bazel b/tools/BUILD.bazel
index 35f3ddae5b..bc15391f84 100644
--- a/tools/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/tools/BUILD.bazel
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ load("@npm_bazel_typescript//:index.bzl", "ts_config")
 exports_files([
     "tsconfig.json",
     "jasmine-seed-generator.js",
-    "tsconfig-test.json"
 ])
 
 ts_config(