diff --git a/.github/workflows/pytest.yaml b/.github/workflows/pytest.yaml
index ea1f1487512..f3b5ba23ae3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pytest.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pytest.yaml
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ jobs:
       if: ${{ !matrix.min-version }}
     - name: Run parallel tests
       run: |
-        pytest -m "not serial" --cov=qcodes --cov-report xml --hypothesis-profile ci  --durations=20 src
+        pytest -m "not serial" --cov=qcodes --cov-report xml --hypothesis-profile ci  --durations=20 src/qcodes
 # a subset of the tests fails when run in parallel on Windows so run those in serial here
     - name: Run serial tests
       run: |
-        pytest -m "serial" -n 0 --dist no --cov=qcodes --cov-report xml --cov-append --hypothesis-profile ci src
+        pytest -m "serial" -n 0 --dist no --cov=qcodes --cov-report xml --cov-append --hypothesis-profile ci src/qcodes
     - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3.1.4
       with: