diff --git a/.github/workflows/dependencies.yml b/.github/workflows/dependencies.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19d805b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/dependencies.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+name: update dependencies
+on:
+
+  schedule:
+    - cron:  '0 0 1 * *'
+
+  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v1
+        id: app-token
+        with:
+          app-id: ${{ vars.APP_ID }}
+          private-key: ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_KEY }}
+          
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
+          ref: development
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+          cache: pip
+
+      - name: Install pre-commit and pip-tools
+        run: pip install pre-commit pip-tools
+
+      - name: Run pre-commit autoupdate
+        run: pre-commit autoupdate
+
+      - name: Update test requirements
+        run: pip-compile --upgrade test_requirements.in -o test_requirements.txt
+      
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v6.0.2
+        with:
+          token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
+          base: development
+          branch: dependency-updates
+          delete-branch: true
+          title: Dependency Updates
+          commit-message: Dependency updates
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diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index a93311f..7add6d1 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 repos:
-- repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-autopep8
-  rev: v2.0.4
+- repo: https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8
+  rev: v2.3.1
   hooks:
   - id: autopep8
     args:
       - --in-place
       - --aggressive
 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
-  rev: 7.0.0
+  rev: 7.1.1
   hooks:
   - id: flake8
 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
diff --git a/tests/test_notifications.py b/tests/test_notifications.py
index 0539b72..4dbd47e 100644
--- a/tests/test_notifications.py
+++ b/tests/test_notifications.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import boto3
-from moto import mock_ssm
+from moto import mock_aws
 
 from src.handle_digitized_image_notifications import (get_config,
                                                       lambda_handler,
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ def test_structure_teams_message():
             assert output == json.dumps(expected)
 
 
-@mock_ssm
+@mock_aws
 def test_config():
     ssm = boto3.client('ssm', region_name='us-east-1')
     path = "/dev/digitized_av_trigger"
diff --git a/tests/test_requirements.in b/tests/test_requirements.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c59c8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_requirements.in
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+boto3~=1.35
+coverage~=7.6
+moto~=5.0
+pytest~=8.3
+urllib3~=2.2
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diff --git a/tests/test_requirements.txt b/tests/test_requirements.txt
index d9ff050..669dd19 100644
--- a/tests/test_requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/test_requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,79 @@
-boto3~=1.26
-coverage~=7.2
-moto~=4.1
-pytest~=7.2
-urllib3~=1.26
\ No newline at end of file
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.10
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    pip-compile --output-file=tests/test_requirements.txt tests/test_requirements.in
+#
+boto3==1.35.70
+    # via
+    #   -r tests/test_requirements.in
+    #   moto
+botocore==1.35.70
+    # via
+    #   boto3
+    #   moto
+    #   s3transfer
+certifi==2024.8.30
+    # via requests
+cffi==1.17.1
+    # via cryptography
+charset-normalizer==3.4.0
+    # via requests
+coverage==7.6.8
+    # via -r tests/test_requirements.in
+cryptography==43.0.3
+    # via moto
+exceptiongroup==1.2.2
+    # via pytest
+idna==3.10
+    # via requests
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+    # via pytest
+jinja2==3.1.4
+    # via moto
+jmespath==1.0.1
+    # via
+    #   boto3
+    #   botocore
+markupsafe==3.0.2
+    # via
+    #   jinja2
+    #   werkzeug
+moto==5.0.21
+    # via -r tests/test_requirements.in
+packaging==24.2
+    # via pytest
+pluggy==1.5.0
+    # via pytest
+pycparser==2.22
+    # via cffi
+pytest==8.3.3
+    # via -r tests/test_requirements.in
+python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
+    # via
+    #   botocore
+    #   moto
+pyyaml==6.0.2
+    # via responses
+requests==2.32.3
+    # via
+    #   moto
+    #   responses
+responses==0.25.3
+    # via moto
+s3transfer==0.10.4
+    # via boto3
+six==1.16.0
+    # via python-dateutil
+tomli==2.1.0
+    # via pytest
+urllib3==2.2.3
+    # via
+    #   -r tests/test_requirements.in
+    #   botocore
+    #   requests
+    #   responses
+werkzeug==3.1.3
+    # via moto
+xmltodict==0.14.2
+    # via moto