diff --git a/.github/workflows/bashlib.sh b/.github/workflows/bashlib.sh
index c9029bdd24460..0d359e059e3ed 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bashlib.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/bashlib.sh
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ cypress-run-all() {
   # UNCOMMENT the next few commands to monitor memory usage
   # monitor_memory &  # Start memory monitoring in the background
   # memoryMonitorPid=$!
-  python ../../scripts/cypress_run.py --parallelism $PARALLELISM --parallelism-id $PARALLEL_ID --retries 5 $USE_DASHBOARD_FLAG
+  python ../../scripts/cypress_run.py --parallelism $PARALLELISM --parallelism-id $PARALLEL_ID --group $PARALLEL_ID --retries 5 $USE_DASHBOARD_FLAG
   # kill $memoryMonitorPid
 
   # After job is done, print out Flask log for debugging
diff --git a/.github/workflows/superset-e2e.yml b/.github/workflows/superset-e2e.yml
index 2f83f4725c6f5..134daebb2f4e7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/superset-e2e.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/superset-e2e.yml
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ jobs:
       PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}
       REDIS_PORT: 16379
       GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-      USE_DASHBOARD: ${{ github.event.inputs.use_dashboard || (github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' && 'true') || 'false' }}
+      # use the dashboard feature when running manually OR merging to master
+      USE_DASHBOARD: ${{ github.event.inputs.use_dashboard == 'true'|| (github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' && 'true') || 'false' }}
     services:
       postgres:
         image: postgres:15-alpine
diff --git a/scripts/cypress_run.py b/scripts/cypress_run.py
index cef760e815b32..738706d48b5ef 100644
--- a/scripts/cypress_run.py
+++ b/scripts/cypress_run.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def generate_build_id() -> str:
 
 
 def run_cypress_for_test_file(
-    test_file: str, retries: int, use_dashboard: bool, group: str, dry_run: bool
+    test_file: str, retries: int, use_dashboard: bool, group: str, dry_run: bool, i: int
 ) -> int:
     """Runs Cypress for a single test file and retries upon failure."""
     cypress_cmd = "./node_modules/.bin/cypress run"
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ def run_cypress_for_test_file(
         cmd = (
             f"{XVFB_PRE_CMD} "
             f'{cypress_cmd} --spec "{test_file}" --browser {browser} '
-            f"--record --group {group} --tag {REPO},{GITHUB_EVENT_NAME} "
-            f"--parallel --ci-build-id {build_id} "
+            f"--record --group matrix{group}-file{i} --tag {REPO},{GITHUB_EVENT_NAME} "
+            f"--ci-build-id {build_id} "
             f"-- {chrome_flags}"
         )
     else:
@@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     # Run each test file independently with retry logic or dry-run
     processed_file_count: int = 0
-    for test_file in spec_list:
+    for i, test_file in enumerate(spec_list):
         result = run_cypress_for_test_file(
-            test_file, args.retries, args.use_dashboard, args.group, args.dry_run
+            test_file, args.retries, args.use_dashboard, args.group, args.dry_run, i
         )
         if result != 0:
             print(f"Exiting due to failure in {test_file}")