diff --git a/.github/workflows/pre_merge.yml b/.github/workflows/pre_merge.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eaf3ed28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pre_merge.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+name: Pre-Merge Checks
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - develop
+      - releases/**
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      - opened
+      - reopened
+      - synchronize
+  workflow_dispatch: # run on request (no need for PR)
+
+# Declare default permissions as read only.
+permissions: read-all
+
+jobs:
+  Code-Quality-Checks:
+    # This is what will cancel the job concurrency
+    concurrency:
+      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-Linting-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+      cancel-in-progress: true
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@82c7e631bb3cdc910f68e0081d67478d79c6982d # v5.1.0
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.10"
+      - name: Install tox
+        run: python -m pip install tox==4.4.6
+      - name: Code quality checks
+        run: tox -vv -e pre-commit
+
+  Unit-Test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    needs: Code-Quality-Checks
+    timeout-minutes: 120
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - python-version: "3.10"
+            tox-env: "py310"
+          - python-version: "3.11.8"
+            tox-env: "py311"
+    name: Unit-Test-${{ matrix.tox-env }}
+    # This is what will cancel the job concurrency
+    concurrency:
+      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-Unit-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}-${{ matrix.tox-env }}
+      cancel-in-progress: true
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
+      - name: Install Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@82c7e631bb3cdc910f68e0081d67478d79c6982d # v5.1.0
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install tox
+        run: python -m pip install tox==4.4.6
+      - name: Run unit test
+        run: tox -vv -e pytest-${{ matrix.tox-env }} -- tests/unit --csv=.tox/pytest-${{ matrix.tox-env }}/unit-test.csv
+          --cov=openvino_xai --cov-report term --cov-report xml:.tox/pytest-${{ matrix.tox-env }}/unit-test-coverage.xml
+      - name: Upload artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@5d5d22a31266ced268874388b861e4b58bb5c2f3 # v4.3.1
+        with:
+          name: unit-test-results-${{ matrix.tox-env }}
+          path: |
+            .tox/pytest-${{ matrix.tox-env }}/*.csv
+            .tox/pytest-${{ matrix.tox-env }}/*.xml
+        # Use always() to always run this step to publish test results when there are test failures
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+      - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+        with:
+          files: .tox/pytest-${{ matrix.tox-env }}/unit-test-coverage.xml
+          flags: pytest-${{ matrix.tox-env }}
+
+  Integration-Test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    needs: Unit-Test
+    name: Integration-Test
+    # This is what will cancel the job concurrency
+    concurrency:
+      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-Integration-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+      cancel-in-progress: true
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
+      - name: Install Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@82c7e631bb3cdc910f68e0081d67478d79c6982d # v5.1.0
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.10"
+      - name: Install tox
+        run: python -m pip install tox==4.4.6
+      - name: Run Integration Test
+        run: tox -vv -e pytest-py310 -- tests/integration --csv=.tox/pytest-py310/intg-test.csv
+      - name: Upload artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@5d5d22a31266ced268874388b861e4b58bb5c2f3 # v4.3.1
+        with:
+          name: intg-test-results
+          path: .tox/pytest-py310/*.csv
+        # Use always() to always run this step to publish test results when there are test failures
+        if: ${{ always() }}
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fd48c30e..4ac86b64 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dev = [
   "pytest",
   "pytest-cov",
+  "pytest-csv",
   "pre-commit==3.7.0",
   "addict",
 ]
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4c265e21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+[tox]
+isolated_build = true
+skip_missing_interpreters = true
+
+[testenv]
+setenv =
+    TOX_WORK_DIR={toxworkdir}
+passenv =
+    HTTP_PROXY
+    HTTPS_PROXY
+
+[testenv:pre-commit]
+deps =
+    pre-commit==3.7.0
+skip_install = true
+commands =
+    pre-commit run --all-files
+
+[testenv:pytest-{py310, py311}]
+extras = dev,dev_timm
+commands =
+    pytest -ra --showlocals {posargs:tests/}