diff --git a/ingestion/src/metadata/utils/time_utils.py b/ingestion/src/metadata/utils/time_utils.py
index 1d816ef6442..ddcee67e650 100644
--- a/ingestion/src/metadata/utils/time_utils.py
+++ b/ingestion/src/metadata/utils/time_utils.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Time utility functions
 """
 
 from datetime import datetime, time, timedelta, timezone
+from math import floor
 from typing import Union
 
 from metadata.utils.helpers import datetime_to_ts
@@ -124,3 +125,42 @@ def convert_timestamp_to_milliseconds(timestamp: Union[int, float]) -> int:
     if len(str(round(timestamp))) == 13:
         return timestamp
     return round(timestamp * 1000)
+
+
+def timedelta_to_string(td: timedelta):
+    """Convert timedelta to human readable string
+
+    Example:
+        >>> timedelta_to_string(timedelta(days=1, hours=2, minutes=3, seconds=4))
+        '1 days 2 hours 3 minutes 4 seconds (total seconds: 93784.0)'
+
+    Args:
+        td (timedelta): timedelta object
+
+    Returns:
+        str: human readable string
+    """
+    res = []
+    current = td
+    if current.days:
+        res.append(f"{floor(td.days)} day")
+        if current.days > 1:
+            res[-1] += "s"
+        current -= timedelta(days=floor(td.days))
+    hours = current.seconds // 3600
+    if hours:
+        res.append(f"{hours} hour")
+        if hours > 1:
+            res[-1] += "s"
+        current -= timedelta(hours=hours)
+    minutes = current.seconds // 60
+    if minutes:
+        res.append(f"{minutes} minute")
+        if minutes > 1:
+            res[-1] += "s"
+        current -= timedelta(minutes=minutes)
+    res.append(f"{current.seconds} second")
+    if current.seconds != 1:
+        res[-1] += "s"
+    total_seconds = "total seconds: " + str(td.total_seconds())
+    return " ".join(res) + f" ({total_seconds})"
diff --git a/ingestion/tests/unit/metadata/utils/test_time_utils.py b/ingestion/tests/unit/metadata/utils/test_time_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..13ef5c9d9c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ingestion/tests/unit/metadata/utils/test_time_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+from datetime import timedelta
+
+import pytest
+
+from metadata.utils.time_utils import timedelta_to_string
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "parameter,expected",
+    [
+        (
+            timedelta(days=1, hours=1, minutes=1, seconds=1),
+            "1 day 1 hour 1 minute 1 second",
+        ),
+        (timedelta(days=1), "1 day"),
+        (
+            timedelta(seconds=0),
+            "0 seconds",
+        ),
+        (timedelta(days=1), "1 day"),
+        (timedelta(hours=1000000.123456), "41666 days 16 hours 7 minutes 24 seconds"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_timedelta_to_string(parameter, expected):
+    assert timedelta_to_string(parameter).startswith(expected)