diff --git a/.changeset/shaggy-fans-glow.md b/.changeset/shaggy-fans-glow.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8fa20aad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/shaggy-fans-glow.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@procore-oss/backstage-plugin-announcements-backend': patch
+---
+
+Improves test coverage significantly for the backend plugin
diff --git a/plugins/announcements-backend/package.json b/plugins/announcements-backend/package.json
index b7c94ddd..4d6c99a5 100644
--- a/plugins/announcements-backend/package.json
+++ b/plugins/announcements-backend/package.json
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     "@backstage/plugin-auth-node": "^0.4.0",
     "@backstage/plugin-permission-common": "^0.7.9",
     "@backstage/plugin-permission-node": "^0.7.17",
+    "@backstage/plugin-search-backend-node": "^1.2.10",
     "@backstage/plugin-search-common": "^1.2.7",
     "@procore-oss/backstage-plugin-announcements-common": "^0.1.2",
     "@types/express": "^4.17.6",
@@ -52,7 +53,9 @@
     "yn": "^4.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "@backstage/backend-test-utils": "^0.2.7",
     "@backstage/cli": "^0.23.1",
+    "@backstage/test-utils": "^1.4.4",
     "@types/supertest": "^2.0.15",
     "@types/uuid": "^8.3.4",
     "better-sqlite3": "^8.7.0",
diff --git a/plugins/announcements-backend/src/search/AnnouncementCollatorFactory.test.ts b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/search/AnnouncementCollatorFactory.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e755de24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/search/AnnouncementCollatorFactory.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+import { AnnouncementCollatorFactory } from './AnnouncementCollatorFactory';
+import { Readable } from 'stream';
+import { getVoidLogger } from '@backstage/backend-common';
+import { TestPipeline } from '@backstage/plugin-search-backend-node';
+import { setupRequestMockHandlers } from '@backstage/test-utils';
+import { setupServer } from 'msw/node';
+import { rest } from 'msw';
+
+const mockAnnouncements = {
+  count: 3,
+  results: [
+    {
+      id: '1',
+      title: 'title',
+      publisher: 'publisher1',
+      body: 'body',
+      excerpt: 'excerpt',
+      created_at: 'created_at',
+    },
+    {
+      id: '2',
+      title: 'title',
+      publisher: 'publisher2',
+      body: 'body',
+      excerpt: 'excerpt',
+      created_at: 'created_at',
+    },
+    {
+      id: '3',
+      title: 'title',
+      publisher: 'publisher3',
+      body: 'body',
+      excerpt: 'excerpt',
+      created_at: 'created_at',
+    },
+  ],
+};
+
+describe('AnnouncementCollatorFactory', () => {
+  const logger = getVoidLogger();
+  const mockDiscoveryApi = {
+    getBaseUrl: jest.fn().mockReturnValue('http://localhost:7007/api'),
+  };
+
+  const factory = AnnouncementCollatorFactory.fromConfig({
+    logger,
+    discoveryApi: mockDiscoveryApi,
+  });
+
+  it('has expected type', () => {
+    expect(factory.type).toBe('announcements');
+  });
+
+  describe('getCollator', () => {
+    const worker = setupServer();
+    setupRequestMockHandlers(worker);
+
+    let collator: Readable;
+    beforeEach(async () => {
+      collator = await factory.getCollator();
+      worker.use(
+        rest.get('http://localhost:7007/api/announcements', (_, res, ctx) =>
+          res(ctx.status(200), ctx.json(mockAnnouncements)),
+        ),
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('should return a Readable stream', async () => {
+      collator = await factory.getCollator();
+      expect(collator).toBeInstanceOf(Readable);
+    });
+
+    it('runs against announcements', async () => {
+      collator = await factory.getCollator();
+      const pipeline = TestPipeline.fromCollator(collator);
+      const { documents } = await pipeline.execute();
+      expect(mockDiscoveryApi.getBaseUrl).toHaveBeenCalledWith('announcements');
+      expect(documents).toHaveLength(mockAnnouncements.results.length);
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/plugins/announcements-backend/src/search/api.test.ts b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/search/api.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..039ca09d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/search/api.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+import { setupRequestMockHandlers } from '@backstage/test-utils';
+import { AnnouncementsClient } from './api';
+import { rest } from 'msw';
+import { setupServer } from 'msw/node';
+
+describe('AnnouncementsClient', () => {
+  const server = setupServer();
+  const mockBaseUrl = 'http://localhost:7007/api/';
+  const discoveryApi = { getBaseUrl: async () => mockBaseUrl };
+
+  setupRequestMockHandlers(server);
+
+  let client: AnnouncementsClient;
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    client = new AnnouncementsClient({ discoveryApi });
+    server.listen();
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => server.resetHandlers());
+  afterAll(() => server.close());
+
+  it('handles no announcements', async () => {
+    server.use(
+      rest.get(`${mockBaseUrl}/announcements`, (_, res, ctx) =>
+        res(ctx.status(200), ctx.json({ count: 0, results: [] })),
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(await client.announcements()).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('returns announcements', async () => {
+    const announcements = [
+      {
+        id: '1',
+        title: 'announcement1',
+        excerpt: 'excerpt',
+        body: 'body',
+        publisher: 'publisher',
+        created_at: '2021-01-01T00:00:00Z',
+      },
+      {
+        id: '1',
+        title: 'announcement2',
+        excerpt: 'excerpt',
+        body: 'body',
+        publisher: 'publisher2',
+        created_at: '2021-01-02T00:00:00Z',
+      },
+    ];
+    server.use(
+      rest.get(`${mockBaseUrl}/announcements`, (_, res, ctx) =>
+        res(ctx.status(200), ctx.json({ count: 2, results: announcements })),
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(await client.announcements()).toEqual(announcements);
+  });
+
+  it('throws on error', async () => {
+    server.use(
+      rest.get(`${mockBaseUrl}/announcements`, (_, res, ctx) =>
+        res(ctx.status(500)),
+      ),
+    );
+    await expect(client.announcements()).rejects.toThrow(
+      'Request failed with 500 Error',
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/announcementsContextBuilder.test.ts b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/announcementsContextBuilder.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..853cea30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/announcementsContextBuilder.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import { PermissionEvaluator } from '@backstage/plugin-permission-common';
+import { buildAnnouncementsContext } from './announcementsContextBuilder';
+import { getVoidLogger } from '@backstage/backend-common';
+import { initializePersistenceContext } from './persistence/persistenceContext';
+
+jest.mock('./persistence/persistenceContext', () => ({
+  initializePersistenceContext: jest.fn(),
+}));
+
+describe('buildAnnouncementsContext', () => {
+  it('returns context with logger, persistenceContext, and permissions properties', async () => {
+    const logger = getVoidLogger();
+    const database = {
+      getClient: jest.fn(),
+      url: 'url',
+    };
+    const permissions: PermissionEvaluator = {
+      authorize: jest.fn(),
+      authorizeConditional: jest.fn(),
+    };
+
+    const context = await buildAnnouncementsContext({
+      logger,
+      database,
+      permissions,
+    });
+
+    expect(context).toStrictEqual({
+      logger,
+      persistenceContext: await initializePersistenceContext(database),
+      permissions,
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/AnnouncementsDatabase.test.ts b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/AnnouncementsDatabase.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3bf88cb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/AnnouncementsDatabase.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,320 @@
+import { TestDatabases } from '@backstage/backend-test-utils';
+import {
+  AnnouncementsDatabase,
+  timestampToDateTime,
+} from './AnnouncementsDatabase';
+import { Knex } from 'knex';
+import { initializePersistenceContext } from './persistenceContext';
+import { DateTime } from 'luxon';
+
+function createDatabaseManager(client: Knex, skipMigrations: boolean = false) {
+  return {
+    getClient: async () => client,
+    migrations: {
+      skip: skipMigrations,
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+describe('AnnouncementsDatabase', () => {
+  const databases = TestDatabases.create();
+  let store: AnnouncementsDatabase;
+  let testDbClient: Knex<any, unknown[]>;
+  let database;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    testDbClient = await databases.init('SQLITE_3');
+    database = createDatabaseManager(testDbClient);
+    store = (await initializePersistenceContext(database)).announcementsStore;
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await testDbClient('announcements').delete();
+  });
+
+  it('should return an empty array when there are no announcements', async () => {
+    const announcements = await store.announcements({});
+    expect(announcements).toEqual({
+      count: 0,
+      results: [],
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should return an announcement by id', async () => {
+    await store.insertAnnouncement({
+      id: 'id',
+      publisher: 'publisher',
+      title: 'title',
+      excerpt: 'excerpt',
+      body: 'body',
+      created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+    });
+
+    const announcement = await store.announcementByID('id');
+
+    expect(announcement).toEqual({
+      id: 'id',
+      publisher: 'publisher',
+      title: 'title',
+      excerpt: 'excerpt',
+      body: 'body',
+      category: undefined,
+      created_at: timestampToDateTime('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should insert a new announcement', async () => {
+    await store.insertAnnouncement({
+      id: 'id',
+      publisher: 'publisher',
+      title: 'title',
+      excerpt: 'excerpt',
+      body: 'body',
+      created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+    });
+
+    const announcements = await store.announcements({});
+
+    expect(announcements).toEqual({
+      count: 1,
+      results: [
+        {
+          id: 'id',
+          publisher: 'publisher',
+          title: 'title',
+          excerpt: 'excerpt',
+          body: 'body',
+          category: undefined,
+          created_at: timestampToDateTime('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+        },
+      ],
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should update an existing announcement', async () => {
+    await store.insertAnnouncement({
+      id: 'id',
+      publisher: 'publisher',
+      title: 'title',
+      excerpt: 'excerpt',
+      body: 'body',
+      created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+    });
+
+    await store.updateAnnouncement({
+      id: 'id',
+      publisher: 'publisher',
+      title: 'title2',
+      excerpt: 'excerpt2',
+      body: 'body2',
+      created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+    });
+
+    const announcements = await store.announcements({});
+
+    expect(announcements).toEqual({
+      count: 1,
+      results: [
+        {
+          id: 'id',
+          publisher: 'publisher',
+          title: 'title2',
+          excerpt: 'excerpt2',
+          body: 'body2',
+          category: undefined,
+          created_at: timestampToDateTime('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+        },
+      ],
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should delete an existing announcement', async () => {
+    await store.insertAnnouncement({
+      id: 'id',
+      publisher: 'publisher',
+      title: 'title',
+      excerpt: 'excerpt',
+      body: 'body',
+      created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+    });
+
+    expect((await store.announcements({})).count).toBe(1);
+
+    await store.deleteAnnouncementByID('id');
+
+    const announcements = await store.announcements({});
+
+    expect(announcements).toEqual({
+      count: 0,
+      results: [],
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('handles not finding an announcement', async () => {
+    expect(await store.announcementByID('id')).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  describe('filters', () => {
+    it('categories', async () => {
+      database = createDatabaseManager(testDbClient);
+      const categoryStore = (await initializePersistenceContext(database))
+        .categoriesStore;
+
+      await categoryStore.insert({
+        slug: 'category',
+        title: 'Category',
+      });
+
+      await categoryStore.insert({
+        slug: 'different',
+        title: 'A different category',
+      });
+
+      await store.insertAnnouncement({
+        id: 'id',
+        publisher: 'publisher',
+        title: 'title',
+        excerpt: 'excerpt',
+        body: 'body',
+        category: 'category',
+        created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+      });
+
+      await store.insertAnnouncement({
+        id: 'id2',
+        publisher: 'publisher2',
+        title: 'title2',
+        excerpt: 'excerpt2',
+        body: 'body2',
+        category: 'category',
+        created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+      });
+
+      await store.insertAnnouncement({
+        id: 'id3',
+        publisher: 'publisher3',
+        title: 'title3',
+        excerpt: 'excerpt3',
+        body: 'body3',
+        category: 'different',
+        created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+      });
+
+      const announcements = await store.announcements({
+        category: 'category',
+      });
+
+      expect(announcements).toEqual({
+        count: 2,
+        results: [
+          {
+            id: 'id2',
+            publisher: 'publisher2',
+            title: 'title2',
+            excerpt: 'excerpt2',
+            body: 'body2',
+            category: {
+              slug: 'category',
+              title: 'Category',
+            },
+            created_at: timestampToDateTime('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+          },
+          {
+            id: 'id',
+            publisher: 'publisher',
+            title: 'title',
+            excerpt: 'excerpt',
+            body: 'body',
+            category: {
+              slug: 'category',
+              title: 'Category',
+            },
+            created_at: timestampToDateTime('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+    });
+
+    // TODO: kurtaking - first testing says offset is not working as expected.
+    // eslint-disable-next-line jest/no-disabled-tests
+    it.skip('offset', async () => {
+      await store.insertAnnouncement({
+        id: 'id',
+        publisher: 'publisher',
+        title: 'title',
+        excerpt: 'excerpt',
+        body: 'body',
+        created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+      });
+
+      await store.insertAnnouncement({
+        id: 'id2',
+        publisher: 'publisher2',
+        title: 'title2',
+        excerpt: 'excerpt2',
+        body: 'body2',
+        created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+      });
+
+      const announcements = await store.announcements({
+        offset: 1,
+      });
+
+      expect(announcements).toEqual({
+        count: 2,
+        results: [
+          {
+            id: 'id',
+            publisher: 'publisher',
+            title: 'title',
+            excerpt: 'excerpt',
+            body: 'body',
+            category: undefined,
+            created_at: timestampToDateTime('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+    });
+
+    // TODO: kurtaking - first testing says max is not working as expected.
+    // eslint-disable-next-line jest/no-disabled-tests
+    it.skip('max', async () => {
+      await store.insertAnnouncement({
+        id: 'id',
+        publisher: 'publisher',
+        title: 'title',
+        excerpt: 'excerpt',
+        body: 'body',
+        created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+      });
+
+      await store.insertAnnouncement({
+        id: 'id2',
+        publisher: 'publisher2',
+        title: 'title2',
+        excerpt: 'excerpt2',
+        body: 'body2',
+        created_at: DateTime.fromISO('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+      });
+
+      const announcements = await store.announcements({
+        max: 1,
+      });
+
+      expect(announcements).toEqual({
+        count: 2,
+        results: [
+          {
+            id: 'id2',
+            publisher: 'publisher2',
+            title: 'title2',
+            excerpt: 'excerpt2',
+            body: 'body2',
+            category: undefined,
+            created_at: timestampToDateTime('2023-10-26T15:28:08.539Z'),
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/AnnouncementsDatabase.ts b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/AnnouncementsDatabase.ts
index e4b248aa..f645ad7d 100644
--- a/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/AnnouncementsDatabase.ts
+++ b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/AnnouncementsDatabase.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ type AnnouncementsList = {
   results: Announcement[];
 };
 
-const timestampToDateTime = (input: Date | string): DateTime => {
+export const timestampToDateTime = (input: Date | string): DateTime => {
   if (typeof input === 'object') {
     return DateTime.fromJSDate(input).toUTC();
   }
diff --git a/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/CategoriesDatabase.test.ts b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/CategoriesDatabase.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..82339344
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/CategoriesDatabase.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+import { Knex } from 'knex';
+import { CategoriesDatabase } from './CategoriesDatabase';
+import { TestDatabases } from '@backstage/backend-test-utils';
+import { initializePersistenceContext } from './persistenceContext';
+import { Category } from '../model';
+
+function createDatabaseManager(client: Knex, skipMigrations: boolean = false) {
+  return {
+    getClient: async () => client,
+    migrations: {
+      skip: skipMigrations,
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+describe('categories', () => {
+  const databases = TestDatabases.create();
+  let store: CategoriesDatabase;
+  let testDbClient: Knex<any, unknown[]>;
+  let database;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    testDbClient = await databases.init('SQLITE_3');
+    database = createDatabaseManager(testDbClient);
+    store = (await initializePersistenceContext(database)).categoriesStore;
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await testDbClient('categories').delete();
+  });
+
+  it('should return an empty array when there are no categories', async () => {
+    const categories = await store.categories();
+    expect(categories).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('should return all categories in ascending order by title', async () => {
+    const category1: Category = { slug: 'category-1', title: 'Category 1' };
+    const category2: Category = { slug: 'category-2', title: 'Category 2' };
+    store.insert(category2);
+    store.insert(category1);
+
+    const categories = await store.categories();
+    expect(categories).toEqual([category1, category2]);
+  });
+
+  it('should delete a category', async () => {
+    const category: Category = { slug: 'category-1', title: 'Category 1' };
+    store.insert(category);
+
+    expect(await store.categories()).toEqual([category]);
+    await store.delete(category.slug);
+    expect(await store.categories()).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('should update a category', async () => {
+    const category: Category = { slug: 'category-1', title: 'Category 1' };
+    store.insert(category);
+
+    await store.update({ ...category, title: 'New Title' });
+    expect(await store.categories()).toEqual([
+      { slug: 'category-1', title: 'New Title' },
+    ]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/persistenceContext.test.ts b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/persistenceContext.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..35267499
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/announcements-backend/src/service/persistence/persistenceContext.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import { AnnouncementsDatabase } from './AnnouncementsDatabase';
+import { CategoriesDatabase } from './CategoriesDatabase';
+import {
+  PersistenceContext,
+  initializePersistenceContext,
+} from './persistenceContext';
+import { TestDatabases } from '@backstage/backend-test-utils';
+
+describe('initializePersistenceContext', () => {
+  const databases = TestDatabases.create();
+  const dbClient = databases.init('SQLITE_3');
+  const mockedDb = {
+    getClient: async () => dbClient,
+    migrations: {
+      skip: false,
+    },
+  };
+
+  let context: PersistenceContext;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    context = await initializePersistenceContext(mockedDb);
+  });
+
+  it('initializes the announcements store', async () => {
+    expect(context.announcementsStore).toBeInstanceOf(AnnouncementsDatabase);
+  });
+
+  it('initializes the categories store', async () => {
+    expect(context.categoriesStore).toBeInstanceOf(CategoriesDatabase);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 39742a68..0ce96598 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2981,6 +2981,33 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"@backstage/backend-test-utils@npm:^0.2.7":
+  version: 0.2.7
+  resolution: "@backstage/backend-test-utils@npm:0.2.7"
+  dependencies:
+    "@backstage/backend-app-api": ^0.5.6
+    "@backstage/backend-common": ^0.19.8
+    "@backstage/backend-plugin-api": ^0.6.6
+    "@backstage/config": ^1.1.1
+    "@backstage/errors": ^1.2.3
+    "@backstage/plugin-auth-node": ^0.4.0
+    "@backstage/types": ^1.1.1
+    better-sqlite3: ^8.0.0
+    express: ^4.17.1
+    fs-extra: ^10.0.1
+    knex: ^2.0.0
+    msw: ^1.0.0
+    mysql2: ^2.2.5
+    pg: ^8.3.0
+    testcontainers: ^8.1.2
+    textextensions: ^5.16.0
+    uuid: ^8.0.0
+  peerDependencies:
+    "@types/jest": "*"
+  checksum: 63803de67920d393a58f79018fb5584aa741e3cc24945b1655a83b6bd2a38184a3eb44e5e2aa9eb36a1de1601687c9ca6b222cbaf193946b13605691fbddaf7f
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