diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index 98e012179..bd644395f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -132,127 +132,60 @@ jobs:
           ./build-${{ env.PG_MAJOR }}/*
           ./install-${{ env.PG_MAJOR }}.tar
   test-citus:
-    name: PG${{ fromJson(matrix.pg_version).major }} - ${{ matrix.make }}
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        suite:
-          - regress
-        image_name:
-          - ${{ needs.params.outputs.test_image_name }}
-        pg_version:
-          - ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg15_version }}
-          - ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg16_version }}
-          - ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg17_version }}
-        make:
-          - check-split
-          - check-multi
-          - check-multi-1
-          - check-multi-mx
-          - check-vanilla
-          - check-isolation
-          - check-operations
-          - check-follower-cluster
-          - check-add-backup-node
-          - check-columnar
-          - check-columnar-isolation
-          - check-enterprise
-          - check-enterprise-isolation
-          - check-enterprise-isolation-logicalrep-1
-          - check-enterprise-isolation-logicalrep-2
-          - check-enterprise-isolation-logicalrep-3
-        include:
-          - make: check-failure
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg15_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-failure
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg16_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-failure
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg17_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-enterprise-failure
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg15_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-enterprise-failure
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg16_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-enterprise-failure
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg17_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-pytest
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg15_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-pytest
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg16_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-pytest
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg17_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: installcheck
-            suite: cdc
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.test_image_name }}
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg15_version }}
-          - make: installcheck
-            suite: cdc
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.test_image_name }}
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg16_version }}
-          - make: installcheck
-            suite: cdc
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.test_image_name }}
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg17_version }}
-          - make: check-query-generator
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg15_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-query-generator
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg16_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-          - make: check-query-generator
-            pg_version: ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg17_version }}
-            suite: regress
-            image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container:
-      image: "${{ matrix.image_name }}:${{ fromJson(matrix.pg_version).full }}${{ needs.params.outputs.image_suffix }}"
-      options: >-
-        --user root
-        --dns=8.8.8.8
-        --cap-add=SYS_NICE
-        --security-opt seccomp=unconfined
-      # Due to Github creates a default network for each job, we need to use
-      # --dns= to have similar DNS settings as our other CI systems or local
-      # machines. Otherwise, we may see different results.
-      # and grant caps so PG18's NUMA introspection (pg_shmem_allocations_numa -> move_pages)
-      # doesn't fail with EPERM in CI.
+    name: Test Citus
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/run_tests.yml
     needs:
-    - params
-    - build
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - uses: "./.github/actions/setup_extension"
-    - name: Run Test
-      run: gosu circleci make -C src/test/${{ matrix.suite }} ${{ matrix.make }}
-      timeout-minutes: 20
-    - uses: "./.github/actions/save_logs_and_results"
-      if: always()
-      with:
-        folder: ${{ fromJson(matrix.pg_version).major }}_${{ matrix.make }}
-    - uses: "./.github/actions/upload_coverage"
-      if: always()
-      with:
-        flags: ${{ env.PG_MAJOR }}_${{ matrix.suite }}_${{ matrix.make }}
-        codecov_token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+      - params
+      - build
+    with:
+      pg_versions: >
+        [
+          ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg15_version }},
+          ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg16_version }},
+          ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg17_version }}
+        ]
+      make_targets: '["check-split", "check-multi", "check-multi-1", "check-multi-mx", "check-vanilla", "check-isolation", "check-operations", "check-follower-cluster", "check-add-backup-node", "check-columnar", "check-columnar-isolation", "check-enterprise", "check-enterprise-isolation", "check-enterprise-isolation-logicalrep-1", "check-enterprise-isolation-logicalrep-2", "check-enterprise-isolation-logicalrep-3"]'
+      image_suffix: ${{ needs.params.outputs.image_suffix }}
+      image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.test_image_name }}
+    secrets:
+      codecov_token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+  test-citus-failure:
+    name: Test Citus Failure
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/run_tests.yml
+    needs:
+      - params
+      - build
+    with:
+      pg_versions: >
+        [
+          ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg15_version }},
+          ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg16_version }},
+          ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg17_version }}
+        ]
+      make_targets: '["check-failure", "check-enterprise-failure", "check-pytest", "check-query-generator"]'
+      image_suffix: ${{ needs.params.outputs.image_suffix }}
+      image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.fail_test_image_name }}
+    secrets:
+      codecov_token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+  test-citus-cdc:
+    name: Test Citus CDC
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/run_tests.yml
+    needs:
+      - params
+      - build
+    with:
+      pg_versions: >
+        [
+          ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg15_version }},
+          ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg16_version }},
+          ${{ needs.params.outputs.pg17_version }}
+        ]
+      make_targets: '["installcheck"]'
+      image_suffix: ${{ needs.params.outputs.image_suffix }}
+      image_name: ${{ needs.params.outputs.test_image_name }}
+      suite: cdc
+    secrets:
+      codecov_token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
   test-arbitrary-configs:
     name: PG${{ fromJson(matrix.pg_version).major }} - check-arbitrary-configs-${{ matrix.parallel }}
     runs-on: ["self-hosted", "1ES.Pool=1es-gha-citusdata-pool"]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/run_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/run_tests.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a88b9fa7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/run_tests.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+name: Run Tests
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      pg_versions:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      make_targets:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      image_suffix:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      image_name:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      suite:
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: "regress"
+      citus_version:
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: ""
+    secrets:
+      codecov_token:
+        required: false
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: PG${{ matrix.pg_version.major }} - ${{ matrix.make }}${{ inputs.citus_version && format(' - {0}', inputs.citus_version) || '' }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        pg_version: ${{ fromJson(inputs.pg_versions) }}
+        make: ${{ fromJson(inputs.make_targets) }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: "${{ inputs.image_name }}:${{ matrix.pg_version.full }}${{ inputs.image_suffix }}"
+      options: >-
+        --user root
+        --dns=8.8.8.8
+        --cap-add=SYS_NICE
+        --security-opt seccomp=unconfined
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: "./.github/actions/setup_extension"
+      - name: Run Test
+        run: CITUSVERSION=${{ inputs.citus_version }} gosu circleci make -C src/test/${{ inputs.suite }} ${{ matrix.make }}
+        timeout-minutes: 20
+      - uses: "./.github/actions/save_logs_and_results"
+        if: always()
+        with:
+          folder: ${{ matrix.pg_version.major }}_${{ matrix.make }}${{ inputs.citus_version && format('_{0}', inputs.citus_version) || '' }}
+      - uses: "./.github/actions/upload_coverage"
+        if: always()
+        with:
+          flags: ${{ env.PG_MAJOR }}_${{ inputs.suite }}_${{ matrix.make }}
+          codecov_token: ${{ secrets.codecov_token }}
diff --git a/src/test/regress/Makefile b/src/test/regress/Makefile
index e9949ecce..ba5cf58b1 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/Makefile
+++ b/src/test/regress/Makefile
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ ifndef MAJORVERSION
 MAJORVERSION := $(basename $(VERSION))
 endif
 
+ifndef CITUSVERSION
+CITUSVERSION := ""
+endif
 # Add ./bin to $PATH so we use our custom diff instead of the default diff tool.
 # We do this to be able to mask shard Ids, placement Ids, node ports, etc.
 MAKEFILE_DIR := $(dir $(realpath $(firstword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
@@ -28,7 +31,7 @@ export PGISOLATIONTIMEOUT = 60
 ## Citus regression support
 ##
 MULTI_INSTALLDIR=$(CURDIR)/tmp_check/install
-pg_regress_multi_check = $(PERL) $(citus_abs_srcdir)/pg_regress_multi.pl --pgxsdir="$(pgxsdir)" --bindir="$(bindir)" --libdir="$(libdir)" --majorversion="$(MAJORVERSION)" --postgres-builddir="$(postgres_abs_builddir)" --postgres-srcdir="$(postgres_abs_srcdir)" --citus_abs_srcdir="$(citus_abs_srcdir)"
+pg_regress_multi_check = $(PERL) $(citus_abs_srcdir)/pg_regress_multi.pl --pgxsdir="$(pgxsdir)" --bindir="$(bindir)" --libdir="$(libdir)" --majorversion="$(MAJORVERSION)" --postgres-builddir="$(postgres_abs_builddir)" --postgres-srcdir="$(postgres_abs_srcdir)" --citus_abs_srcdir="$(citus_abs_srcdir)" --citus-version=$(CITUSVERSION)
 MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS = --inputdir=$(citus_abs_srcdir) $(pg_regress_locale_flags) --launcher="$(citus_abs_srcdir)/log_test_times"
 
 pg_upgrade_check = $(citus_abs_srcdir)/citus_tests/upgrade/pg_upgrade_test.py
@@ -157,6 +160,7 @@ check-multi: all
 check-enterprise: all
 	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus \
 	-- $(MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(citus_abs_srcdir)/enterprise_schedule $(EXTRA_TESTS)
+
 check-multi-1: all
 	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus \
 	-- $(MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(citus_abs_srcdir)/multi_1_schedule $(EXTRA_TESTS)
diff --git a/src/test/regress/pg_regress_multi.pl b/src/test/regress/pg_regress_multi.pl
index efe5e71b7..7d760a2eb 100755
--- a/src/test/regress/pg_regress_multi.pl
+++ b/src/test/regress/pg_regress_multi.pl
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ sub Usage()
     print "  --connection-timeout	Timeout for connecting to worker nodes\n";
     print "  --mitmproxy        	Start a mitmproxy for one of the workers\n";
     print "  --worker-count         Number of workers in Citus cluster (default: 2)\n";
+    print "  --citus-version        Citus version being tested (used for during extension create)\n";
     exit 1;
 }
 
@@ -87,6 +88,7 @@ my $conninfo = "";
 my $publicWorker1Host = "localhost";
 my $publicWorker2Host = "localhost";
 my $workerCount = 2;
+my $citusversion = "";
 
 my $serversAreShutdown = "TRUE";
 my $usingWindows = 0;
@@ -121,6 +123,7 @@ GetOptions(
     'worker-1-public-hostname=s' => \$publicWorker1Host,
     'worker-2-public-hostname=s' => \$publicWorker2Host,
     'worker-count=i' => \$workerCount,
+    'citus-version=s' => \$citusversion,
     'help' => sub { Usage() });
 
 my $fixopen = "$bindir/postgres.fixopen";
@@ -590,6 +593,12 @@ if($isolationtester)
    push(@pgOptions, "citus.background_task_queue_interval=-1");
 }
 
+if($citusversion)
+{
+    push(@pgOptions, "citus.enable_version_checks=off");
+    push(@pgOptions, "columnar.enable_version_checks=off");
+}
+
 # Add externally added options last, so they overwrite the default ones above
 for my $option (@userPgOptions)
 {
@@ -990,10 +999,20 @@ if (!$conninfo)
 
         for my $extension (@extensions)
         {
-            system(catfile($bindir, "psql"),
-                ('-X', '-h', $host, '-p', $port, '-U', $user, "-d", "regression",
-                    '-c', "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS $extension;")) == 0
-                or die "Could not create extension $extension on worker port $port.";
+            if ($extension eq "citus" && $citusversion ne "")
+            {
+                system(catfile($bindir, "psql"),
+                    ('-X', '-h', $host, '-p', $port, '-U', $user, "-d", "regression",
+                        '-c', "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS $extension VERSION '$citusversion';")) == 0
+                    or die "Could not create extension $extension on worker port $port.";
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                system(catfile($bindir, "psql"),
+                    ('-X', '-h', $host, '-p', $port, '-U', $user, "-d", "regression",
+                        '-c', "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS $extension;")) == 0
+                    or die "Could not create extension $extension on worker port $port.";
+            }
         }
 
         foreach my $function (keys %functions)