diff --git a/backend/export/tests/conftest.py b/backend/export/tests/conftest.py
index 10bfa971..80344c5e 100644
--- a/backend/export/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/backend/export/tests/conftest.py
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import pytest
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
 from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
 from backend.app.db.base import Base
+from sqlmodel import SQLModel
+import backend.app.db.models.organisation  # noqa: F401 — registers Organisation with SQLModel.metadata
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="function")
@@ -25,12 +27,14 @@ def engine(postgresql):
 
     # Create tables once per test session
     Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
+    SQLModel.metadata.create_all(engine)
 
     # Yeild will split this function into two phase. 1) setup and 2) teardown, the latter of which will run after all
     # tests have completed
     yield engine
 
     # Clean-up after entire test session
+    SQLModel.metadata.drop_all(engine)
     Base.metadata.drop_all(engine)
     engine.dispose()