diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7b8bd93c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+name: Build and test rmlint (master)
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      RM_TS_DIR: "/tmp/rmlint-unit-testdir"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: "Prepare build environment"
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            scons python3-sphinx gettext python3-setuptools \
+            libblkid-dev libelf-dev libglib2.0-dev libjson-glib-dev \
+            clang python3-pip python3-cffi python3-dev libffi-dev
+          pip3 install -r tests/requirements.txt
+      - name: "Build"
+        # Todo: eventually run tests with valgrind (RM_TS_USE_VALGRIND)
+        # Todo enable slow tests in pytest
+        run: |
+          scons config
+          scons VERBOSE=1 DEBUG=1 O=release
+      - name: "Prepare test environment"
+        # The test suite is seriously disk-intensive. Given that linux
+        #  instances hosted in GitHub have 16G of RAM available we will
+        #  use it to speed up the run.
+        run: |
+          sudo mkdir "${RM_TS_DIR}"
+          sudo mount -o size=12G,nr_inodes=0 -t tmpfs tmpfs "${RM_TS_DIR}"
+      - name: "Test"
+        run: |
+          RM_TS_PRINT_CMD=1 RM_TS_PEDANTIC=0 python -m pytest -s -v
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d8e395528..5ac20b874 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -31,3 +31,5 @@ gui/app/resources/app.gresource
 rmlint.*.sh
 rmlint.*.json
 
+# JetBrains' IDE
+.idea
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b11f23e9..000000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-language: c
-
-install:
-    - sudo apt-get update
-    - sudo apt-get install scons python3-sphinx gettext python3-setuptools
-    - sudo apt-get install libblkid-dev libelf-dev libglib2.0-dev libjson-glib-dev
-    - sudo apt-get install clang python3-pip python3-cffi libffi-dev
-    - sudo pip3 install -r test-requirements.txt
-
-compiler:
-  - clang
-  - gcc
-
-notifications:
-  email:
-    - sahib@online.de
-    - thomas_d_j@yahoo.com.au
-
-script:
-    - scons VERBOSE=1 DEBUG=1 O=release
-    - scons config
-    - export RM_TS_PRINT_CMD=1
-    - export RM_TS_PEDANTIC=0
-    - sudo -E nosetests -s -v -a '!slow'
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a900bc5b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import pytest
+from tests.utils import cleanup_testdir, create_testdir
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def with_cleanup_between_runs():
+    cleanup_testdir()
+    create_testdir()
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
similarity index 81%
rename from test-requirements.txt
rename to tests/requirements.txt
index 1882435d9..79ec53709 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 nose==1.3.7
+pytest==8.3.4
 parameterized==0.6.1
 xattr==0.9.6
 psutil==5.6.6
diff --git a/tests/utils.py b/tests/utils.py
index 47ade03eb..55a165e63 100644
--- a/tests/utils.py
+++ b/tests/utils.py
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ def create_testdir(*extra_path):
         pass
 
 
+def cleanup_testdir():
+    shutil.rmtree(TESTDIR_NAME, ignore_errors=True)
+
+
 def which(program):
     def is_exe(fpath):
         return os.path.isfile(fpath) and os.access(fpath, os.X_OK)