Improvements to e2e-package-and-test pipeline template reusability

What does this MR do and why?

Additional improvements identified when trying to run package-and-test pipeline integrated as child pipeline outside of gitlab project.

Related to: gitlab-org/quality/quality-engineering/team-tasks#1471 (closed) and !101597 (closed)

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