diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 87e28cb..1f0ec84 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ CommonSolve = "0.2.6"
 ConcreteStructs = "0.2.3"
 DifferentiationInterface = "0.7.13"
 Distributions = "0.25.122"
-ExplicitImports = "1.11.2"
 FastRationals = "0.3.0"
 ForwardDiff = "1.3.0"
 InverseFunctions = "0.1"
@@ -38,21 +37,20 @@ LinearSolve = "3.15.0"
 Markdown = "1.10.0"
 NonlinearSolveBase = "2.25"
 NonlinearSolveFirstOrder = "2"
-PrecompileTools = "1"
+PrecompileTools = "1.1"
 RecursiveArrayTools = "3.33.0, 4.0"
 SafeTestsets = "0.1"
-SciMLBase = "2.90, 3.1"
-SciMLTesting = "1"
+SciMLBase = "2.90, 3.27"
+SciMLTesting = "1.7"
 Setfield = "1.1.2"
 StatsAPI = "1.8.0"
 Test = "1.10"
 julia = "1.10"
 
 [extras]
-ExplicitImports = "7d51a73a-1435-4ff3-83d9-f097790105c7"
 SafeTestsets = "1bc83da4-3b8d-516f-aca4-4fe02f6d838f"
 SciMLTesting = "09d9d899-5365-40a9-917a-5f67fddea283"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Test", "SafeTestsets", "SciMLTesting", "ExplicitImports"]
+test = ["Test", "SafeTestsets", "SciMLTesting"]
diff --git a/test/explicit_imports.jl b/test/explicit_imports.jl
deleted file mode 100644
index ff17a15..0000000
--- a/test/explicit_imports.jl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-using CurveFit
-using Test
-using ExplicitImports
-using StatsAPI
-
-@testset "Explicit Imports" begin
-    @test check_no_implicit_imports(CurveFit) === nothing
-    @test check_no_stale_explicit_imports(CurveFit) === nothing
-    @test check_no_self_qualified_accesses(CurveFit) === nothing
-    @test check_all_qualified_accesses_via_owners(CurveFit) === nothing
-end
diff --git a/test/nopre/aqua.jl b/test/nopre/aqua.jl
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f309bf..0000000
--- a/test/nopre/aqua.jl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-using CurveFit
-using Test
-using Aqua
-
-@testset "Aqua tests" begin
-    Aqua.test_all(CurveFit)
-end
diff --git a/test/nopre/Project.toml b/test/qa/Project.toml
similarity index 94%
rename from test/nopre/Project.toml
rename to test/qa/Project.toml
index a6376b5..8fcc767 100644
--- a/test/nopre/Project.toml
+++ b/test/qa/Project.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ CurveFit = {path = "../.."}
 [compat]
 Aqua = "0.8.12"
 SafeTestsets = "0.1"
-SciMLTesting = "1"
+SciMLTesting = "1.7"
 Test = "1.10"
 julia = "1.10"
diff --git a/test/qa/qa.jl b/test/qa/qa.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe3b706
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/qa/qa.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+using SciMLTesting, CurveFit, Test
+
+run_qa(
+    CurveFit;
+    explicit_imports = true,
+    ei_kwargs = (;
+        all_explicit_imports_are_public = (;
+            ignore = (),
+        ),
+        all_qualified_accesses_are_public = (;
+            ignore = (
+                :AutoSpecializeCallable, :NonlinearSolvePolyAlgorithmCache,  # NonlinearSolveBase
+                :Utils, :get_fu, :clean_sprint_struct,                       # NonlinearSolveBase(.Utils)
+                :rtoldefault,                                                # Base
+            ),
+        ),
+    ),
+)
diff --git a/test/test_groups.toml b/test/test_groups.toml
index a3ce918..7e41a25 100644
--- a/test/test_groups.toml
+++ b/test/test_groups.toml
@@ -3,21 +3,17 @@
 # --root-matrix, and by SciMLTesting's run_tests() folder-discovery mode in
 # runtests.jl. Each table key is a GROUP value passed to runtests.jl.
 #
-#   "Core"  -> the top-level test/*.jl files (the functional fits plus the
-#              ExplicitImports check). Runs on 1/lts/pre.
-#   "nopre" -> the test/nopre/ folder (Aqua), which is brittle on prereleases,
-#              so it runs only on 1/lts. `in_all = false` keeps it out of a
-#              local GROUP=All aggregate run.
-#
-# This replaces the former TestItemRunner tag split (GROUP=All ran every
-# @testitem except :nopre; GROUP=nopre ran only the :nopre-tagged Aqua item):
-# the same tests run under the same two (group x version) CI cells.
+#   "Core" -> the top-level test/*.jl files (the functional fits). Runs on
+#             1/lts/pre.
+#   "QA"   -> the test/qa/ folder (SciMLTesting run_qa: Aqua + ExplicitImports),
+#             which is brittle on prereleases, so it runs only on 1/lts.
+#             QA is always excluded from a local GROUP=All aggregate run.
 
 [Core]
 versions = ["1", "lts", "pre"]
 os = ["ubuntu-latest", "macOS-latest", "windows-latest"]
 
-[nopre]
+[QA]
 in_all = false
 versions = ["1", "lts"]
 os = ["ubuntu-latest", "macOS-latest", "windows-latest"]