To facilitate deployment tracking: How to track stories' QA done, if epic is not QA done?

[Marie-Helene Larouche]

Hi,

How do you or would you manage your tickets/reporting/QA if you are facing the following situation?

Context:

- Epic is used as Potential shippable product (PSP)

- PSP has multiple stories

- Each story has test cases (Zephyr)

- Epic has a general test case (we test the feature, once all stories are complete)

Problematic: 

After the story gets Accepted by our Product Owner, it passes to a end-to-end round of testing. One story can be QA done, but would have to wait before deploying it until the Epic is fully tested. When we do search tickets: we can see much more tickets that are QA done, but only a couple can be deployed.

What is your recommendation? Best practice? 

Thank you!