Trigger a subset of tests

[cyschneck]

PR Summary

Closes #512

PR Checklist

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• [x] Make an issue if one doesn't already exist
• [x] Link the issue this PR resolves by adding closes #XXX to the PR description where XXX is the number of the issue.
• [ ] Add a brief summary of changes to docs/release-notes.rst in a relevant section for the next unreleased release. Possible sections include: Documentation, New Features, Bug Fixes, Internal Changes, Breaking Changes/Deprecated
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• [ ] If needed, squash and merge PR commits into a single commit to clean up commit history

[cyschneck]

Looks like there is a bug in Github Action when using paths-ignore in pull_request (https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/2324). paths-ignore will work when: 1.) creating a new PR and 2.) pushing a change that only impacts the files included in paths-ignore. However, when a commit is added to the PR outside of the paths-ignore list, then the workflow will ignore all files in paths-ignore for all future commits

I will convert the paths-ignore files into verify-changed-files with some conditional statements on jobs running within a workflow. Instead of fully ignoring the file, the workflow should skip jobs when only specific files/folders are edited