Jenkins is unable to execute Cucumber tests using Maven Surefire, Spring Boot and JUnit5 - spring-boot

Question

I am using spring-boot-starter-parent:2.2.6.RELEASE and cucumber-java8:5.6.0 to execute e2e tests using Cucumber Runner/Spring Boot/JUnit5/Maven Surefire. I have installed latest Jenkins Community LTS v2.222.1 on a Linux VM and connected my laptop as a slave.
When I execute the tests on my laptop using IDE / command prompt it works fine (using mvn clean test). However same tests are not running when triggered from Jenkins. It's bit confusing since I am using same config/tools.
Jenkins Console O/P:
[INFO] Changes detected - recompiling the module!
[INFO] Compiling 10 source files to C:\Jenkins\workspace\Sanity\core\target\test-classes
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.2:test (default-test) # project-core ---
[INFO]
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] T E S T S
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
Apr 07, 2020 1:08:45 PM net.masterthought.cucumber.ReportParser parseForFeature
INFO: File {0} does not contain features
Apr 07, 2020 1:08:45 PM net.masterthought.cucumber.ReportParser parseJsonFiles
INFO: File 'C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\2\cucumber5203280546924184867.json' contains 0 features
Apr 07, 2020 1:08:45 PM net.masterthought.cucumber.ReportBuilder generateErrorPage
INFO: Unexpected error
net.masterthought.cucumber.ValidationException: Passed files have no features!
...
IDE Console O/P:
[INFO] Changes detected - recompiling the module!
[INFO] Compiling 10 source files to C:\Code\project\core\target\test-classes
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.2:test (default-test) # project-core ---
[INFO]
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] T E S T S
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Running com.x.y.z.CucumberTests
2020-04-07 13:22:52.330 INFO --- [ main] .b.t.c.SpringBootTestContextBootstrapper : Neither #ContextConfiguration nor #ContextHierarchy found for test class [com.x.y.z.stepdefs.LogVerificationSteps], using SpringBootContextLoader
...
CucumberTests.java:
import io.cucumber.junit.Cucumber;
import io.cucumber.junit.CucumberOptions;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
#RunWith(Cucumber.class)
#CucumberOptions(
plugin = {"pretty", "de.monochromata.cucumber.report.PrettyReports:target"},
features = "src/test/resources/features")
public class CucumberTests {
}
This is multi-module maven project, the features are available under:
root
\__core
\__src/test/resources/features/*
So basically in Jenkins features/tests are not being run at all - why is it happening, any idea folks?