Cache and reuse gems for qa directory

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From https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55839, it looks like when RubyGems went down, all the QA-related specs that needed RubyGems also failed (e.g. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/-/jobs/140316783).

One we can fix this is to cache vendor/qa, but we might want to consider configuring bundler to use ../vendor so that we can reuse gems as much as possible?