diff --git a/backend/api/tests/data/labeling.jsonl b/backend/api/tests/data/labeling.jsonl
deleted file mode 100644
index 3123d2b8..00000000
--- a/backend/api/tests/data/labeling.jsonl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{"text": "example", "labels": [[0, 1, "LOC"], [0, 2, "ORG"]], "meta": {"wikiPageID": 1}}
-{"text": "example", "labels": [[0, 1, "LOC"]], "meta": {"wikiPageID": 2}}
-{"text": "example", "labels": [[0, 1, "PER"]], "meta": {"wikiPageID": 3}}
diff --git a/backend/api/tests/data/labeling.conll b/backend/api/tests/data/sequence_labeling/example.conll
similarity index 100%
rename from backend/api/tests/data/labeling.conll
rename to backend/api/tests/data/sequence_labeling/example.conll
diff --git a/backend/api/tests/data/sequence_labeling/example.jsonl b/backend/api/tests/data/sequence_labeling/example.jsonl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..418b1b5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/api/tests/data/sequence_labeling/example.jsonl
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{"text": "example", "label": [[0, 1, "LOC"], [0, 2, "ORG"]], "meta": {"wikiPageID": 1}}
+{"text": "example", "label": [[0, 1, "LOC"]], "meta": {"wikiPageID": 2}}
+{"text": "example", "label": [[0, 1, "PER"]], "meta": {"wikiPageID": 3}}
diff --git a/backend/api/tests/test_tasks.py b/backend/api/tests/test_tasks.py
index 2b994036..a0d460c0 100644
--- a/backend/api/tests/test_tasks.py
+++ b/backend/api/tests/test_tasks.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import pathlib
 
 from django.test import TestCase
 
-from ..models import Category, Example, Label
+from ..models import Category, Example, Label, Span
 from ..tasks import injest_data
 from .api.utils import prepare_project
 
@@ -63,3 +63,35 @@ class TestIngestClassificationData(TestCase):
         filename = 'example.txt'
         file_format = 'TextLine'
         self.assert_count(filename, file_format, expected_example=3, expected_label=0, expected_annotation=0)
+
+
+class TestIngestSequenceLabelingData(TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.project = prepare_project(task='SequenceLabeling')
+        self.user = self.project.users[0]
+        self.data_path = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / 'data'
+
+    def assert_count(self,
+                     filename,
+                     file_format,
+                     kwargs=None,
+                     expected_example=0,
+                     expected_label=0,
+                     expected_annotation=0):
+        filenames = [str(self.data_path / filename)]
+        kwargs = kwargs or {}
+        injest_data(self.user.id, self.project.item.id, filenames, file_format, **kwargs)
+        self.assertEqual(Example.objects.count(), expected_example)
+        self.assertEqual(Label.objects.count(), expected_label)
+        self.assertEqual(Span.objects.count(), expected_annotation)
+
+    def test_jsonl(self):
+        filename = 'sequence_labeling/example.jsonl'
+        file_format = 'JSONL'
+        self.assert_count(filename, file_format, expected_example=3, expected_label=3, expected_annotation=4)
+
+    def test_conll(self):
+        filename = 'sequence_labeling/example.conll'
+        file_format = 'CoNLL'
+        self.assert_count(filename, file_format, expected_example=3, expected_label=2, expected_annotation=5)