diff --git a/tests/recipes/test_qat_lora_finetune_distributed.py b/tests/recipes/test_qat_lora_finetune_distributed.py
index 4d7c4b6899..6c43adcc73 100644
--- a/tests/recipes/test_qat_lora_finetune_distributed.py
+++ b/tests/recipes/test_qat_lora_finetune_distributed.py
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@
     TOKENIZER_PATHS,
 )
 from torchtune import config
+
+from torchtune.training.checkpointing._utils import (
+    ADAPTER_MODEL_FNAME,
+    get_largest_iter_folder,
+    RECIPE_STATE_DIRNAME,
+    safe_torch_load,
+    SHARD_FNAME,
+)
 from torchtune.training.quantization import _torchao_0_7_supported
 
 
@@ -166,6 +174,8 @@ def test_training_state_on_resume(
         runpy.run_path(TUNE_PATH, run_name="__main__")
 
         # Resume training
+        epoch_folder = get_largest_iter_folder(tmpdir)
+        epoch_folder_minus_one = f"epoch_{int(epoch_folder.split('_')[-1]) - 1}"
         cmd_2 = f"""
         tune run --nnodes 1 --nproc_per_node 2 qat_lora_finetune_distributed \
             --config {config} \
@@ -173,10 +183,10 @@ def test_training_state_on_resume(
             gradient_accumulation_steps=1 \
             output_dir={tmpdir} \
             checkpointer._component_={ckpt_component} \
-            checkpointer.checkpoint_dir={tmpdir} \
+            checkpointer.checkpoint_dir={ckpt_dir} \
             checkpointer.checkpoint_files=[{ckpt_path}]\
-            checkpointer.adapter_checkpoint={os.path.join(tmpdir, "adapter_0.pt")}
-            checkpointer.recipe_checkpoint={os.path.join(tmpdir, "recipe_state.pt")}
+            checkpointer.adapter_checkpoint={os.path.join(epoch_folder_minus_one, f"{ADAPTER_MODEL_FNAME}.pt")}
+            checkpointer.recipe_checkpoint={os.path.join(RECIPE_STATE_DIRNAME, "recipe_state.pt")}
             checkpointer.output_dir={tmpdir} \
             checkpointer.model_type={model_type.upper()} \
             tokenizer.path='{tokenizer_path}' \
@@ -254,8 +264,10 @@ def test_save_and_load_merged_weights(
         model = config.instantiate(OmegaConf.from_dotlist(base_config).model)
 
         # Load base model and trained adapter weights into LoRA model and call fwd
-        with open(f"{tmpdir}/adapter_1.pt", "rb") as f:
-            lora_sd = torch.load(f, weights_only=True)
+        epoch_folder = get_largest_iter_folder(tmpdir)
+        adpt_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, epoch_folder, f"{ADAPTER_MODEL_FNAME}.pt")
+        lora_sd = safe_torch_load(adpt_path, weights_only=True)
+
         with open(ckpt_path, "rb") as f:
             base_model_sd = torch.load(f, weights_only=True)
         lora_model.load_state_dict(lora_sd, strict=False)
@@ -263,8 +275,13 @@ def test_save_and_load_merged_weights(
         baseline_out = lora_model(inputs)
 
         # Load merged final ckpt directly into model and call fwd
-        with open(f"{tmpdir}/torchtune_model_1.pt", "rb") as f:
-            sd = torch.load(f, weights_only=True)
+        suffix = ".safetensors" if ckpt_type == "hf" else ".bin"
+        model_ckpt_fname = (
+            SHARD_FNAME.format(cpt_idx="1".zfill(5), num_shards="1".zfill(5)) + suffix
+        )
+        model_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, epoch_folder, model_ckpt_fname)
+        sd = safe_torch_load(model_path, weights_only=True)
+
         model.load_state_dict(sd)
         merged_ckpt_out = model(inputs)