Need permission to delete my imported test cases

[Kent Lai]

/manage-jira-permissions I need to delete test cases imported earlier but when I select and delete, it show I don't have permission to delete my imported test cases.

Please grant me permission to delete my imported test cases.

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

Hello and welcome to the Community @Kent Lai 

The Community cannot grant permissions on your Jira site.

We don't have access to customer sites. We're like you, users.

You will need to contact your internal Jira administrator or project administrator and ask them to review your permissions for the project where the test cases were imported.

Best,

Arkadiusz 🤠 ☀️ 

[Germán Morales _ Hiera]

@Arkadiusz Wroblewski has the gist of it. The permission you actually need is Delete issues on the project where those test cases live, and only a project admin (or your site admin) can grant it.

Quick way to find them without asking around: open any of those test cases, click the project name in the breadcrumb, go to Project settings > People, and look for whoever has the Administrator role. That is the person you message. If the import was done by a colleague, they are very likely that person already.

One thing worth checking before you ask, @Kent Lai: are these regular Jira issues of type Test, or do they live inside a test management app like Zephyr or Xray? If it's the second case there is a second permission layer inside the app and the admin will have to grant both. Knowing which import flow you used helps them point at the right setting.

[yqiao]

Hey Kent,

We can't grant permissions here (community forum), but here's what you need:

You're missing the "Delete Issues" permission in your project's permission scheme. Ask your Jira admin to:

1. Go to Project Settings → Permissions

2. Grant "Delete Issues" to your role/group

If your test cases came through a test management plugin (Zephyr, Xray, etc.), there's likely a separate permission layer in the app settings too — check there as well.

Quick workaround if you can't get delete perms: bulk-transition them to "Won't Do" instead.