diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 695b8e38d..328e2ff49 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Check environment variables
+        run: |
+          /bin/bash scripts/check_vars.sh
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
         uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
@@ -33,6 +36,9 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip poetry importlib-resources==1.5.0
           poetry export --with dev -f requirements.txt --output requirements.txt
           pip install -r requirements.txt
+      - name: Validate Grafana dashboard
+        run: |
+          python3 scripts/validate_dashboards.py ./monitoring/grafana/dashboards/
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
           /bin/bash run_tests.sh
diff --git a/run_tests.sh b/run_tests.sh
index b1c613dcf..c8599a749 100755
--- a/run_tests.sh
+++ b/run_tests.sh
@@ -14,48 +14,9 @@ echo -e "${CYAN}------------------------------${NO_COLOR}"
 find . -name '*.py' | xargs dirname | sort | uniq | xargs -I {} bash -c "test -f {}/__init__.py || ( echo {} directory does not have __init__.py! && false )"
 rc=$(($rc+$?))
 
-# Simple test to compare variables used in code and specified in conf/*.env files, allows to set ignored variables
-not_configurable="CW_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID\|CW_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\|SLACK_WEBHOOK\|VULNERABILITY_ENV"\
-"\|MINIMAL_SCHEMA\|HOSTNAME\|DB_UPGRADE_SCRIPTS_DIR\|VE_DB_USER_ADVISOR_LISTENER_PASSWORD"\
-"\|VE_DB_USER_EVALUATOR_PASSWORD\|VE_DB_USER_LISTENER_PASSWORD\|VE_DB_USER_MANAGER_PASSWORD"\
-"\|VE_DB_USER_TASKOMATIC_PASSWORD\|VE_DB_USER_VMAAS_SYNC_PASSWORD\|VE_DB_USER_NOTIFICATOR_PASSWORD"
-not_in_code="API_URLS\|CYNDI_MOCK\|PGUSER"
-configurable_variables=$(cat conf/*.env | grep -o "^.*=" | sed 's/.$//g' | sort -u | grep -v "$not_in_code")
-code_variables=$(find . -name '*.py' -not -path './.venv/*' -not -path './scripts/*' -not -path './tests/*' -not -path './database/upgrade/*' -exec grep -oP "os\.getenv.*?\)|os\.environ\.get.*?\)" {} \; | awk -F"['\"]" '{print $2}' | sort -u | grep -v "$not_configurable")
-diff <(echo "$configurable_variables") <(echo "$code_variables")
-diff_rc=$?
-if [ $diff_rc -gt 0 ]; then
-    echo "Some variables in code or conf/*.env are missing!"
-else
-    echo "Variables in code and conf/*.env are OK"
-fi
-rc=$(($rc+$diff_rc))
-
-echo ""
-
-# Are there duplicated configuration variables?
-duplicates=$(cat conf/*.env | grep -o "^.*=.*" | sort | uniq -d)
-duplicate_cnt=0
-for dup in $duplicates
-do
-    echo "$dup"
-    duplicate_cnt=$(($duplicate_cnt+1))
-done
-if [ $duplicate_cnt -gt 0 ]; then
-    echo "Duplicated variables were found!"
-    rc=$(($rc+1))
-else
-    echo "Variables are unique."
-fi
-
 # Run unit tests
 echo "Running unit tests:"
 pytest -vvv -s --cov-report term --cov --color=yes --durations=1
 rc=$(($rc+$?))
 
-# Validate grafana dashboards
-echo "Validating Grafana dashboards:"
-./scripts/validate_dashboards.py ./monitoring/grafana/dashboards/
-rc=$(($rc+$?))
-
 exit $rc
diff --git a/scripts/check_vars.sh b/scripts/check_vars.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..02fe3c35d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/check_vars.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+rc=0
+RED='\033[0;31m'
+NC='\033[0m' # No Color
+
+# Are there duplicated configuration variables?
+duplicates=$(cat conf/*.env | grep -o "^.*=.*" | sort | uniq -d)
+duplicate_cnt=0
+for dup in $duplicates
+do
+    echo "$dup"
+    duplicate_cnt=$(($duplicate_cnt+1))
+done
+if [ $duplicate_cnt -gt 0 ]; then
+    echo -e "${RED} Error: Duplicated variables were found!${NC}"
+    rc=$(($rc+1))
+else
+    echo "Variables are unique."
+fi
+
+# Simple test to compare variables used in code and specified in conf/*.env files, allows to set ignored variables
+not_configurable="CW_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID\|CW_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\|SLACK_WEBHOOK\|VULNERABILITY_ENV"\
+"\|MINIMAL_SCHEMA\|HOSTNAME\|DB_UPGRADE_SCRIPTS_DIR\|VE_DB_USER_ADVISOR_LISTENER_PASSWORD"\
+"\|VE_DB_USER_EVALUATOR_PASSWORD\|VE_DB_USER_LISTENER_PASSWORD\|VE_DB_USER_MANAGER_PASSWORD"\
+"\|VE_DB_USER_TASKOMATIC_PASSWORD\|VE_DB_USER_VMAAS_SYNC_PASSWORD\|VE_DB_USER_NOTIFICATOR_PASSWORD"
+not_in_code="API_URLS\|CYNDI_MOCK\|PGUSER"
+configurable_variables=$(cat conf/*.env | grep -o "^.*=" | sed 's/.$//g' | sort -u | grep -v "$not_in_code")
+code_variables=$(find . -name '*.py' -not -path './.venv/*' -not -path './scripts/*' -not -path './tests/*' -not -path './database/upgrade/*' -exec grep -oP "os\.getenv.*?\)|os\.environ\.get.*?\)" {} \; | awk -F"['\"]" '{print $2}' | sort -u | grep -v "$not_configurable")
+diff <(echo "$configurable_variables") <(echo "$code_variables")
+diff_rc=$?
+if [ $diff_rc -gt 0 ]; then
+    echo -e "${RED} Error: Some variables in code or conf/*.env are missing!${NC}"
+else
+    echo "Variables in code and conf/*.env are OK"
+fi
+rc=$(($rc+$diff_rc))
+
+exit $rc