diff --git a/.github/workflows/quality.yml b/.github/workflows/quality.yml
index 63d525069..db99106d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/quality.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/quality.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  build:
+  quality:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml b/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml
index aa4d04da5..b8e1dd46f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml
@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         test_pattern:
           [
-            "test_export*",
-            "test_modeling*",
+            "test_modeling.py",
+            "test_modeling_basic.py",
+            "test_modeling_diffusion.py",
+            "test_modeling_sentence_transformers.py",
             "test_quantization*",
             "test_training*",
+            "test_export*",
           ]
         transformers-version: ["4.36.0", "4.45.*"]
         python-version: ["3.9"]
@@ -56,15 +59,15 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test with Pytest
         run: |
-          pytest tests/openvino/${{ matrix.test_pattern }}.py
+          pytest tests/openvino/${{ matrix.test_pattern }} --duration=0
         env:
           HF_HUB_READ_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_HUB_READ_TOKEN }}
 
-      - name: Install nightly OpenVINO
+      - name: Install dependencies (nightly)
         run: |
           pip install --upgrade --pre openvino openvino-tokenizers --extra-index-url https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/simple/wheels/nightly
 
-      - name: Test with Pytest
-        if: ${{ matrix.test_pattern == 'test_modeling*' }}
+      - name: Test with Pytest (nightly)
+        if: ${{ matrix.test_pattern == 'test_modeling_basic.py' }}
         run: |
           pytest tests/openvino/modeling_basic.py
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml b/.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml
index 0826f1613..a00f3f017 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          pip install .[openvino] jstyleson pytest
           pip install -r examples/openvino/audio-classification/requirements.txt --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
           pip install -r examples/openvino/image-classification/requirements.txt --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
           pip install -r examples/openvino/question-answering/requirements.txt --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
           pip install -r examples/openvino/text-classification/requirements.txt --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+          pip install .[openvino] jstyleson pytest
 
       - name: Test examples
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_openvino_notebooks.yml b/.github/workflows/test_openvino_notebooks.yml
index 2d0f79ffd..d024ad46a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_openvino_notebooks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_openvino_notebooks.yml
@@ -37,17 +37,12 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          # Install PyTorch CPU to prevent unnecessary downloading/installing of CUDA packages
-          # ffmpeg, torchaudio and pillow are required for image classification and audio classification pipelines
+          # ffmpeg is required for image classification and audio classification pipelines
           sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
           pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
           pip install -r notebooks/openvino/requirements.txt
           pip install .[tests,openvino] nbval
 
-      - run: free -h
-      - run: lscpu
-      - run: pip freeze
-
       - name: Test with Pytest
         run: |
           sed -i 's/NUM_TRAIN_ITEMS = 600/NUM_TRAIN_ITEMS = 10/' notebooks/openvino/question_answering_quantization.ipynb
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_openvino_slow.yml b/.github/workflows/test_openvino_slow.yml
index 49ffe8d67..bb193b353 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_openvino_slow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_openvino_slow.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ on:
     branches:
       - v*-release
   pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, labeled]
+    types:
+      - opened
+      - labeled
+      - reopened
+      - synchronize
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
@@ -20,6 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
+        # TODO: testong python upper bound seems unnecessary
         # Testing lower and upper bound of supported Python versions
         # This also ensures that the test fails if dependencies break for Python 3.7
         python-version: ["3.9", "3.12"]
@@ -47,7 +52,9 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
       - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
@@ -55,25 +62,26 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          # Install PyTorch CPU to prevent unnecessary downloading/installing of CUDA packages
+          pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
-          # Install openvino manually to prevent dependency conflicts when .[openvino] pins
-          # optimum or transformers to a specific version
           pip install ${{ matrix.openvino }}
           pip install .[tests] transformers[testing]==${{ matrix.transformers-version }}
 
-      - name: Pip freeze
-        run: pip freeze
+      - name: Assert versions
+        run: |
+          python -c "import transformers; print(transformers.__version__); assert transformers.__version__.startswith('${{ matrix.transformers-version }}'.replace('.*', ''))"
 
       - name: Test with Pytest
         run: |
           pytest tests/openvino/test_modeling_basic.py
 
-      - name: Slow tests
+      - name: Install dependencies (slow)
         run: |
           pip install ${{ matrix.nncf }}
-          pytest tests/openvino -s -m "run_slow" --durations=0
+
+      - name: Test with Pytest (slow)
+        run: |
+          pytest tests/openvino -m "run_slow" --durations=0
         env:
           RUN_SLOW: 1
           HF_HUB_READ_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_HUB_READ_TOKEN }}