Wow, that is huge. I would like to make two suggestions.
- We should review the release testing template and find the scenarios that are covered by automated testing. We don’t need to test those manually.
- I would like to avoid the double-checking of all the merged pull requests. But that needs a little modification of our process. After a tester gave their okay, we just merge it into master. We developers do that anyway. There is no other assessment we do. We just merge it. So we can automate that or give testers permission to merge. And if every successfully tested pull request is in master, we can merge master into every pull request when staging and it will be up to date. It is very unlikely that a pull request breaks an existing feature.