diff --git a/.github/workflows/pytest.yml b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
index 97ceefa..7ba6659 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ jobs:
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install -r requirements.txt
         pip install -r requirements-test.txt
+        sudo apt-get install libopenjp2-7
     - name: Run Flake8
       run: |
         flake8 .
diff --git a/tests/base/test_jp2.py b/tests/base/test_jp2.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd01061
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/base/test_jp2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import os.path
+import unittest
+
+import glymur
+from glymur.codestream import CMEsegment
+
+from hippolyzer.lib.base.jp2_utils import BufferedJp2k
+
+BASE_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+
+
+@unittest.skipIf(glymur.jp2k.opj2.OPENJP2 is None, "OpenJPEG library missing")
+class TestJP2Utils(unittest.TestCase):
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls) -> None:
+        # Use a rigged cube SLM from the upload process as a test file
+        with open(os.path.join(BASE_PATH, "test_resources", "plywood.j2c"), "rb") as f:
+            cls.j2c_bytes = f.read()
+
+    def test_load_j2c(self):
+        j = BufferedJp2k(contents=self.j2c_bytes)
+        j.parse()
+        # Last segment in the header is the comment section
+        com: CMEsegment = j.codestream.segment[-1]
+        self.assertEqual("CME", com.marker_id)
+        # In this case the comment is the encoder version
+        self.assertEqual(b'Kakadu-3.0.3', com.ccme)
+
+    def test_read_j2c_data(self):
+        j = BufferedJp2k(self.j2c_bytes)
+        pixels = j[::]
+        self.assertEqual((512, 512, 3), pixels.shape)
+
+    def test_save_j2c_data(self):
+        j = BufferedJp2k(self.j2c_bytes)
+        pixels = j[::]
+        j[::] = pixels
+        new_j2c_bytes = bytes(j)
+        self.assertNotEqual(self.j2c_bytes, new_j2c_bytes)
+        # Glymur will have replaced the CME section with its own
+        self.assertIn(b"Created by OpenJPEG", new_j2c_bytes)
diff --git a/tests/base/test_resources/plywood.j2c b/tests/base/test_resources/plywood.j2c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..654d0b0
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