diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index de40c8a10e2..74fac592ed4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -277,11 +277,15 @@ jobs:
     - name: Test without coverage
       if: "! matrix.use_coverage"
       shell: bash
+      env:
+        _PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_JUNIT: --junitxml=junit-${{ matrix.name }}.xml
       run: tox run -e ${{ matrix.tox_env }} --installpkg `find dist/*.tar.gz`
 
     - name: Test with coverage
       if: "matrix.use_coverage"
       shell: bash
+      env:
+        _PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_JUNIT: --junitxml=junit-${{ matrix.name }}.xml
       run: tox run -e ${{ matrix.tox_env }}-coverage --installpkg `find dist/*.tar.gz`
 
     - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
@@ -292,6 +296,14 @@ jobs:
         files: ./coverage.xml
         verbose: true
 
+    - name: Upload JUnit report to Codecov
+      uses: codecov/codecov-action@5a1091511ad55cbe89839c7260b706298ca349f7
+      with:
+        fail_ci_if_error: false
+        files: junit-${{ matrix.name }}.xml
+        report_type: test_results
+        verbose: true
+
   check:  # This job does nothing and is only used for the branch protection
     if: always()
 
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index a089ca678f7..6f292256ff1 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Ahn Ki-Wook
 Akhilesh Ramakrishnan
 Akiomi Kamakura
 Alan Velasco
+Alejandro Villate
 Alessio Izzo
 Alex Jones
 Alex Lambson
diff --git a/changelog/12689.contrib.rst b/changelog/12689.contrib.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..78cacc0d828
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/12689.contrib.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+automated uploading JUnit reports to codecov in the test workflow with codecov GitHub Action
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 35f337cdc71..5a8fa240898 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ description =
     doctesting: including doctests
 commands =
     {env:_PYTEST_TOX_COVERAGE_RUN:} pytest {posargs:{env:_PYTEST_TOX_DEFAULT_POSARGS:}}
-    doctesting: {env:_PYTEST_TOX_COVERAGE_RUN:} pytest --doctest-modules --pyargs _pytest
+    doctesting: {env:_PYTEST_TOX_COVERAGE_RUN:} pytest --doctest-modules {env:_PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_JUNIT:} --pyargs _pytest
     coverage: coverage combine
     coverage: coverage report -m
     # Run `coverage xml` only on CI.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ passenv =
     TERM
     CI
 setenv =
-    _PYTEST_TOX_DEFAULT_POSARGS={env:_PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_DOCTESTING:} {env:_PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_LSOF:} {env:_PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_XDIST:} {env:_PYTEST_FILES:}
+    _PYTEST_TOX_DEFAULT_POSARGS={env:_PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_DOCTESTING:} {env:_PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_JUNIT:} {env:_PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_LSOF:} {env:_PYTEST_TOX_POSARGS_XDIST:} {env:_PYTEST_FILES:}
 
     # See https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io-encoding-warning
     # If we don't enable this, neither can any of our downstream users!