diff --git a/.github/workflows/cicd.yaml b/.github/workflows/cicd.yaml
index b1f9765a3..b30f2dae3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cicd.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cicd.yaml
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 name: stac-fastapi
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [ master ]
+    branches: [master]
   pull_request:
-    branches: [ master ]
+    branches: [master]
 
 jobs:
   test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [ '3.8', '3.9', '3.10']
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
     timeout-minutes: 10
 
     services:
@@ -118,9 +118,56 @@ jobs:
           POSTGRES_HOST_READER: localhost
           POSTGRES_HOST_WRITER: localhost
           POSTGRES_PORT: 5432
+
+  validate:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    services:
+      pgstac:
+        image: ghcr.io/stac-utils/pgstac:v0.6.11
+        env:
+          POSTGRES_USER: username
+          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password
+          POSTGRES_DB: postgis
+          PGUSER: username
+          PGPASSWORD: password
+          PGDATABASE: postgis
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd pg_isready
+          --health-interval 10s
+          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-retries 5
+        ports:
+          - 5432:5432
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out repository code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.10"
+          cache: pip
+          cache-dependency-path: stac_fastapi/pgstac/setup.cfg
+      - name: Install stac-fastapi and stac-api-validator
+        run: pip install ./stac_fastapi/pgstac[server] stac-api-validator
+      - name: Load data and validate
+        run: python -m stac_fastapi.pgstac.app & ./scripts/wait-for-it.sh localhost:8080 && python ./scripts/ingest_joplin.py http://localhost:8080 && stac-api-validator --root-url http://localhost:8080 --conformance core
+        env:
+          POSTGRES_USER: username
+          POSTGRES_PASS: password
+          POSTGRES_DBNAME: postgis
+          POSTGRES_HOST_READER: localhost
+          POSTGRES_HOST_WRITER: localhost
+          POSTGRES_PORT: 5432
+          PGUSER: username
+          PGPASSWORD: password
+          PGHOST: localhost
+          PGDATABASE: postgis
+          APP_HOST: 0.0.0.0
+          APP_PORT: 8080
+
   test-docs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Test generating docs
-        run: make docs
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+        run: make docs