diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 165fb18..b83edef 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 # This workflow will validate the mzQC example files against the JSON schema.
 
 name: tests
-
+env: 
+  # folder path only; file name and extension wild cards get added in-use
+  PATH_TO_EXAMPLES: ./specification_documents/examples
+  
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [ main ]
+    branches: [ main, ci_test_validate ]
   pull_request:
-    branches: [ main ]
+    branches: [ main, ci_test_validate ]
   schedule:
   - cron: "0 0 1 1/1 *" # Run monthly.
 
@@ -19,16 +22,28 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: '3.x'
+        python-version: '3.10'
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install jsonschema
-    - name: Validate mzQC files
+        pip install jsonschema check-jsonschema click
+        pip install -U git+https://github.com/MS-Quality-hub/pymzqc.git@v1.0.0rc3
+    - name: Syntactic Validatation of Example mzQC Files
+      run: |
+        for i in $PATH_TO_EXAMPLES/*.mz[qQ][cC]; do 
+          echo "Syntactic Validation of $i"
+          #jsonschema -i $i ./schema/mzqc_schema.json 
+          check-jsonschema --schemafile ./schema/mzqc_schema.json $i
+          if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+            echo "Failed to validate $i"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+        done
+    - name: Semantic Validatation of Example mzQC Files
       run: |
-        for i in ./specification_documents/examples/*.mz[qQ][cC]; do 
-          echo "Syntactic validating of $i"
-          jsonschema -i $i ./schema/mzqc_schema.json 
+        for i in $PATH_TO_EXAMPLES/*.mz[qQ][cC]; do 
+          echo "Semantic Validation of $i"
+          mzqc-validator $i
           if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
             echo "Failed to validate $i"
             exit 1