diff --git a/.github/workflows/cypress.yaml b/.github/workflows/cypress.yaml
index 4f23fbe4937..f66f9a37bd8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cypress.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cypress.yaml
@@ -25,12 +25,13 @@ jobs:
           path: care
 
       - name: Run docker compose up on care 🐳
-        run: cd care && touch .env && make docker_config_file=docker-compose.pre-built.yaml up && cd .. && sleep 60s
-        # Voluntarily kept 60 seconds delay to wait for migrations to complete.
-
-      - name: Run Django collectstatic and load dummy data on care 🐍
         run: |
-          docker exec care python manage.py load_dummy_data
+          cd care  
+          make docker_config_file=docker-compose.pre-built.yaml up 
+          sleep 60s
+          docker compose exec backend bash -c "python manage.py load_dummy_data"
+          cd ..
+        # Voluntarily kept 60 seconds delay to wait for migrations to complete.
 
       - name: Check care is up ♻
         run: curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}\n" http://localhost:9000