Fix release-environments QA fail on 17.7 and 17.8

From 17.7 (so 17.8 also), the smoke tests running against release-environments failed with the error

Fabrication of QA::Resource::Group using the API failed (403) with `{"message":"403 Forbidden"}`.

Example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security/gitlab/-/jobs/8899945491

Exit Criteria

• QA on release-environments is fixed and runs successful on 17.7 and 17.8