diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveQuerySuite.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveQuerySuite.scala
index 903cee743dc1a..87c2541dc7555 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveQuerySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveQuerySuite.scala
@@ -1224,10 +1224,12 @@ class HiveQuerySuite extends HiveComparisonTest with SQLTestUtils with BeforeAnd
   test("SPARK-33084: Add jar support Ivy URI in SQL") {
     val testData = TestHive.getHiveFile("data/files/sample.json").toURI
     withTable("t") {
-      // exclude org.pentaho:pentaho-aggdesigner-algorithm as this transitive dependency does
-      // not exist on mavencentral and hence cannot be found in the test environment
+      // hive-catalog-core has some transitive dependencies which dont exist on maven central
+      // and hence cannot be found in the test environment or are non-jar (.pom) which cause
+      // failures in tests. Use transitive=false as it should be good enough to test the Ivy
+      // support in Hive ADD JAR
       sql(s"ADD JAR ivy://org.apache.hive.hcatalog:hive-hcatalog-core:$hiveVersion" +
-        "?exclude=org.pentaho:pentaho-aggdesigner-algorithm")
+        "?transitive=false")
       sql(
         """CREATE TABLE t(a string, b string)
           |ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'""".stripMargin)