diff --git a/ingestion/src/metadata/data_quality/validations/runtime_param_setter/param_setter_factory.py b/ingestion/src/metadata/data_quality/validations/runtime_param_setter/param_setter_factory.py
index be1a0abc291..f66fcbfcebd 100644
--- a/ingestion/src/metadata/data_quality/validations/runtime_param_setter/param_setter_factory.py
+++ b/ingestion/src/metadata/data_quality/validations/runtime_param_setter/param_setter_factory.py
@@ -22,13 +22,20 @@ from metadata.data_quality.validations.runtime_param_setter.param_setter import
 from metadata.data_quality.validations.runtime_param_setter.table_diff_params_setter import (
     TableDiffParamsSetter,
 )
-from metadata.data_quality.validations.table.sqlalchemy.tableDiff import (
-    TableDiffValidator,
-)
 from metadata.generated.schema.entity.data.table import Table
 from metadata.ingestion.ometa.ometa_api import OpenMetadata
 from metadata.sampler.sqlalchemy.sampler import SQASampler
 
+# We want to use the explicit class name here but the packages might not exist
+try:
+    from metadata.data_quality.validations.table.sqlalchemy.tableDiff import (
+        TableDiffValidator,
+    )
+except ImportError:
+
+    class TableDiffValidator:
+        pass
+
 
 def removesuffix(s: str, suffix: str) -> str:
     """A custom implementation of removesuffix for python versions < 3.9