diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull-request-merge-precondition.yml b/.github/workflows/pull-request-merge-precondition.yml
index e41810c..ddad109 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull-request-merge-precondition.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull-request-merge-precondition.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ name: Pull Request Merge Precondition
 on:
   pull_request:
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pull-requests: write
+
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -11,7 +15,11 @@ jobs:
         python-version: [3.8]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: true # otherwise, the token used is the GITHUB_TOKEN, instead of your personal token
+          fetch-depth: 0 # otherwise, you will failed to push refs to dest repo
+
       - uses: psf/black@stable
         with:
           options: "--check --verbose --exclude migrations"
@@ -20,3 +28,19 @@ jobs:
         with:
           configuration: "--check-only --diff --profile black"
           requirementsFiles: "requirements.txt"
+
+      - name: install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+          pip install pytest-cov
+
+      - name: run pytest
+        run: |
+          pytest --junitxml=pytest.xml --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov=pyconkr ./ | tee pytest-coverage.txt
+
+      #- name: Pytest coverage comment
+      #  uses: MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment@main
+      #  with:
+      #    pytest-coverage-path: ./pytest-coverage.txt
+      #    junitxml-path: ./pytest.xml
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4e40c38..25ab02b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,3 +10,11 @@
   * mac
     * brew install mysql-client
 * pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+## how to run localtesting ( sqlite3 based )
+```
+# to setup pytest and requirements
+pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+# run test
+pytest
+```
diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98a6f21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import pytest
+
+
+# TODO
+# https://djangostars.com/blog/django-pytest-testing/#header17
+@pytest.fixture
+def api_client():
+    from rest_framework.test import APIClient
+
+    return APIClient()
diff --git a/manage.py b/manage.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/pyconkr/settings-localtest.py b/pyconkr/settings-localtest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b7ccd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyconkr/settings-localtest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import os
+
+from pyconkr.settings import *
+
+DEBUG = True
+
+ALLOWED_HOSTS += [
+    "*",
+]
+
+
+# RDS
+DATABASES = {"default": {"ENGINE": "django.db.backends.sqlite3", "NAME": ":memory:"}}
+
+# django-storages: TODO fix to in memory?
+del MEDIA_ROOT
+DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage"
+STATICFILES_STORAGE = "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3StaticStorage"
+AWS_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID = os.getenv("AWS_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID")
+AWS_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = os.getenv("AWS_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY")
+AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = "pyconkr-api-v2-static-dev"
diff --git a/pytest.ini b/pytest.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a662ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pytest.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[pytest]
+DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = pyconkr.settings-localtest
+# -- recommended but optional:
+python_files = tests.py test_*.py *_tests.py
+addopts = --no-migrations
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..112c1ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+-r requirements.txt
+black
+isort
+pytest
+pytest-django
diff --git a/sponsor/tests.py b/sponsor/tests.py
index 7ce503c..d2f24a3 100644
--- a/sponsor/tests.py
+++ b/sponsor/tests.py
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
-from django.test import TestCase
+import pytest
+from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
+
+from sponsor.models import SponsorLevel
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db
+
+UserModel = get_user_model()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.django_db
+class TestSponsorLevelModel:
+    pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db
+
+    def test_sponsor_level_creation_success(self):
+        assert SponsorLevel.objects.count() == 0
+        SponsorLevel.objects.create(
+            name="test",
+            desc="test desc",
+            visible=True,
+            limit=1,
+        )
+        assert SponsorLevel.objects.count() != 0
+
 
 # Create your tests here.