diff --git a/jest-global-setup.js b/jest-global-setup.js
index d67f51e66f..171b0f85fb 100644
--- a/jest-global-setup.js
+++ b/jest-global-setup.js
@@ -1,26 +1,29 @@
-const webpackTasks = require('@bolt/build-tools/tasks/webpack-tasks');
-const createWebpackConfig = require('@bolt/build-tools/create-webpack-config');
-const { buildPrep } = require('@bolt/build-tools/tasks/task-collections');
-const imageTasks = require('@bolt/build-tools/tasks/image-tasks');
-const { getConfig } = require('@bolt/build-tools/utils/config-store');
+const { setup: setupDevServer } = require('jest-dev-server');
+const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
+const mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
+const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const os = require('os');
 
-module.exports = async function() {
-  try {
-    let config = await getConfig();
-    await buildPrep(); // Generate folders, manifest data, etc needed for Twig renderer
-    await imageTasks.processImages(); // process image fixtures used by any tests
+const DIR = path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'jest_puppeteer_global_setup');
 
-    // don't compile anything in Webpack except for the exported JSON data from Bolt's Design Tokens
-    config.components.global = ['./packages/core/styles/index.scss'];
-    config.components.individual = [];
+module.exports = async function globalSetup() {
+  await setupDevServer({
+    command: `node server/testing-server`,
+    launchTimeout: 50000,
+    port: 4444,
+  });
 
-    // Disabling Sourcemaps here technically isn't REQUIRED but this might help speed things along, especially on Travis
-    config.sourceMaps = false;
+  const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
+  // store the browser instance so we can teardown it later
+  // this global is only available in the teardown but not in TestEnvironments
+  global.__BROWSER_GLOBAL__ = browser;
 
-    const customWebpackConfig = await createWebpackConfig(config);
+  global.navigator = {
+    userAgent: 'node.js',
+  };
 
-    await webpackTasks.compile(customWebpackConfig);
-  } catch (error) {
-    console.log(error);
-  }
+  // use the file system to expose the wsEndpoint for TestEnvironments
+  mkdirp.sync(DIR);
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(DIR, 'wsEndpoint'), browser.wsEndpoint());
 };
diff --git a/jest-global-teardown.js b/jest-global-teardown.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..613f337b86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jest-global-teardown.js
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+const os = require('os');
+const rimraf = require('rimraf');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const { teardown: teardownDevServer } = require('jest-dev-server');
+
+const DIR = path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'jest_puppeteer_global_setup');
+module.exports = async function() {
+  // close the browser instance
+  await global.__BROWSER_GLOBAL__.close();
+
+  await teardownDevServer();
+
+  // clean-up the wsEndpoint file
+  rimraf.sync(DIR);
+};
diff --git a/jest.config.js b/jest.config.js
index 7cf91a2a13..e87bca4ab8 100644
--- a/jest.config.js
+++ b/jest.config.js
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ module.exports = {
     './scripts/monorepo.test.js',
   ],
   globalSetup: './jest-global-setup.js',
+  globalTeardown: './jest-global-teardown.js',
   snapshotSerializers: ['jest-serializer-html'],
   // Notify not working correctly; we want to only get a notification when tests fail, and then get ONE success notificaiton after it passes
   // notify: true,
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5c4de07605..a68272f43a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -87,8 +87,10 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "babel-jest": "^24.1.0",
     "basichtml": "^0.21.1",
+    "jest-dev-server": "^3.9.0",
     "jest-environment-node": "^24.0.0",
     "puppeteer": "^1.12.2",
+    "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
     "@zeit/fetch-retry": "^3.0.0",
     "ci-utils": "^0.5.0",
     "express": "^4.16.4",