First, your version is past EOL. You should upgrade to either the latest version or the current LTS at your earliest convenience. Your upgrade path is:
Regarding your question, from the docs it seems that Jest/Karma are usable to provide something that would be consumed with the sonar.coverageReportPaths parameter. I suggest you check your analysis logs to see how/whether the parameters you’ve provided are consumed.
Thanks, G Ann, We have upgraded our sonarqube to 8.9.5. I have requested the team to add the sonar.coverageReportPaths parameter as well. I will inform on the outfome.