The CI tests that I develop are integrated partially with the package sources itself (I frequently use the automake test infrastucture to run a make check target)

I've been told that I can execute CI tests manually prior to check in using this method:
https://docs.engineering.redhat.com/display/RHELPLAN/User+guide#Userguide-Howtorunmydist-gittestsonmylocalhostforRHEL8

Which is a big step in the right direction, but if I want to write a new test, I need to integrate that with my package sources, which means I need a bz to commit them, so that CI gets the updated test when it runs. That creates significant latency, because it implies that I need to get requisite management ACKs to commit those changes.

What would be better would be if I could run the CI tests against a locally built rpm prior to commit to remove that latency.