diff --git a/activestorage/app/jobs/active_storage/transform_job.rb b/activestorage/app/jobs/active_storage/transform_job.rb
index f7f260542b49e..d2c8bffe1ff67 100644
--- a/activestorage/app/jobs/active_storage/transform_job.rb
+++ b/activestorage/app/jobs/active_storage/transform_job.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ class ActiveStorage::TransformJob < ActiveStorage::BaseJob
   retry_on ActiveStorage::IntegrityError, attempts: 10, wait: :exponentially_longer
 
   def perform(blob, transformations)
-    blob.variant(transformations).process
+    blob.variant(transformations).processed
   end
 end
diff --git a/activestorage/test/jobs/transform_job_test.rb b/activestorage/test/jobs/transform_job_test.rb
index c813caeba65c9..21e5d42f8485f 100644
--- a/activestorage/test/jobs/transform_job_test.rb
+++ b/activestorage/test/jobs/transform_job_test.rb
@@ -15,4 +15,19 @@ class ActiveStorage::TransformJobTest < ActiveJob::TestCase
       end
     end
   end
+
+  test "creates variant when untracked" do
+    @was_tracking, ActiveStorage.track_variants = ActiveStorage.track_variants, false
+    transformations = { resize_to_limit: [100, 100] }
+
+    begin
+      assert_changes -> { @blob.variant(transformations).send(:processed?) }, from: false, to: true do
+        perform_enqueued_jobs do
+          ActiveStorage::TransformJob.perform_later @blob, transformations
+        end
+      end
+    ensure
+      ActiveStorage.track_variants = @was_tracking
+    end
+  end
 end