diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index d0af88b7543..1afe213c7bb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -90,26 +90,25 @@ jobs:
   test-deno:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     name: Deno tests
+    env:
+      MONGOMS_VERSION: 6.0.0
+      MONGOMS_PREFER_GLOBAL_PATH: 1
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@ac593985615ec2ede58e132d2e21d2b1cbd6127c # v3.0.2
-      - name: Setup
-        run: |
-          wget -q https://downloads.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-ubuntu2004-6.0.0.tgz
-          tar xf mongodb-linux-x86_64-ubuntu2004-6.0.0.tgz
-          mkdir -p ./data/db/27017 ./data/db/27000
-          printf "\ntimeout: 8000" >> ./.mocharc.yml
-          ./mongodb-linux-x86_64-ubuntu2004-6.0.0/bin/mongod --setParameter ttlMonitorSleepSecs=1 --fork --dbpath ./data/db/27017 --syslog --port 27017
-          sleep 2
-          mongod --version
-          echo `pwd`/mongodb-linux-x86_64-ubuntu2004-6.0.0/bin >> $GITHUB_PATH
+      - uses: actions/checkout@ac593985615ec2ede58e132d2e21d2b1cbd6127c # v3.3.0
       - name: Setup node
         uses: actions/setup-node@64ed1c7eab4cce3362f8c340dee64e5eaeef8f7c # v3.6.0
         with:
           node-version: 16
+      - name: Load MongoDB binary cache
+        id: cache-mongodb-binaries
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
+        with:
+          path: ~/.cache/mongodb-binaries
+          key: deno-${{ env.MONGOMS_VERSION }}
       - name: Setup Deno
         uses: denoland/setup-deno@v1
         with:
-          deno-version: v1.28.x
+          deno-version: v1.30.x
       - run: deno --version
       - run: npm install
       - name: Run Deno tests
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7dfc40afe5d..791e2841b9c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
     "release-legacy": "git pull origin 5.x && git push origin 5.x --tags && npm publish --tag legacy",
     "mongo": "node ./tools/repl.js",
     "test": "mocha --exit ./test/*.test.js",
-    "test-deno": "deno run --allow-env --allow-read --allow-net --allow-run --allow-sys ./test/deno.js",
+    "test-deno": "deno run --allow-env --allow-read --allow-net --allow-run --allow-sys --allow-write ./test/deno.js",
     "test-rs": "START_REPLICA_SET=1 mocha --timeout 30000 --exit ./test/*.test.js",
     "test-tsd": "node ./test/types/check-types-filename && tsd",
     "tdd": "mocha ./test/*.test.js --inspect --watch --recursive --watch-files ./**/*.{js,ts}",
diff --git a/test/deno.js b/test/deno.js
index 922766f1b20..9245e25da40 100644
--- a/test/deno.js
+++ b/test/deno.js
@@ -18,12 +18,19 @@ const Mocha = require('mocha');
 const fs = require('fs');
 const path = require('path');
 
+const fixtures = require('./mocha-fixtures.js')
+
 const mocha = new Mocha({
   timeout: 8000,
   ...(args.g ? { fgrep: '' + args.g } : {})
 });
 
+// the following is required because mocha somehow does not load "require" options and so needs to be manually set-up
+mocha.globalSetup(fixtures.mochaGlobalSetup);
+mocha.globalTeardown(fixtures.mochaGlobalTeardown);
+
 const testDir = 'test';
+
 const files = fs.readdirSync(testDir).
   concat(fs.readdirSync(path.join(testDir, 'docs')).map(file => path.join('docs', file))).
   concat(fs.readdirSync(path.join(testDir, 'helpers')).map(file => path.join('helpers', file)));
@@ -41,4 +48,4 @@ for (const file of files) {
 mocha.run(function(failures) {
   process.exitCode = failures ? 1 : 0;  // exit with non-zero status if there were failures
   process.exit(process.exitCode);
-});
\ No newline at end of file
+});