diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 0ad6b5e30..98c84cde1 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ install:
   - docker build --build-arg BUILD_COMMIT=$TRAVIS_COMMIT -t humanconnection/nitro-web .
   - docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
   - git clone https://github.com/Human-Connection/Nitro-Backend.git ../Nitro-Backend
-  - git -C "../Nitro-Backend" checkout $TRAVIS_BRANCH || echo "Branch \`$TRAVIS_BRANCH\` does not exist, falling back to \`master\`"
+  - git -C "../Nitro-Backend" checkout $TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST_BRANCH || git -C "../Nitro-Backend" checkout $TRAVIS_BRANCH || echo "Branch \`$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST_BRANCH\` and \`$TRAVIS_BRANCH\` does not exist, falling back to \`master\`"
   - docker-compose -f ../Nitro-Backend/docker-compose.yml -f ../Nitro-Backend/docker-compose.travis.yml up -d
   - yarn global add cypress wait-on
   - yarn add cypress-cucumber-preprocessor