diff --git a/.github/workflows/cypress.yaml b/.github/workflows/cypress.yaml
index 4f23fbe4937..130f360d2ef 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cypress.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cypress.yaml
@@ -24,13 +24,22 @@ jobs:
           repository: coronasafe/care
           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: Start care docker containers 🐳
+        run: |
+          cd care
+          make docker_config_file=docker-compose.pre-built.yaml up 
+          while docker compose exec backend bash -c "python manage.py showmigrations 2>/dev/null | cat | grep -q '\[ \]'"; do
+            >&2 echo "Migrations are not yet applied - sleeping"
+            sleep 5
+          done
+          echo "Migrations are applied"
+          cd ..
 
-      - name: Run Django collectstatic and load dummy data on care 🐍
+      - name: Load dummy data into care backend 📂
         run: |
-          docker exec care python manage.py load_dummy_data
+          cd care
+          docker compose exec backend bash -c "python manage.py load_dummy_data"
+          cd ..
 
       - name: Check care is up ♻
         run: curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}\n" http://localhost:9000
@@ -92,10 +101,3 @@ jobs:
           name: cypress-screenshots
           path: cypress/screenshots
 
-      # Test run video was always captured, so this action uses "always()" condition
-      - name: Upload cypress videos 📹
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        if: always()
-        with:
-          name: cypress-videos
-          path: cypress/videos