diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 000bdfa338..a3e3699e8f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
     "snowflake.core>=1.0.0, <2",  # Catalog
     "psutil",  # testing for telemetry
     "lxml",  # used in XML reader unit tests
+    "pyarrow",  # used in dataframe reader tests
 ]
 MODIN_DEVELOPMENT_REQUIREMENTS = [
     # Snowpark pandas 3rd party library testing. Cap the scipy version because
diff --git a/tests/integ/compiler/test_query_generator.py b/tests/integ/compiler/test_query_generator.py
index e3cdf38889..e7c1e1d181 100644
--- a/tests/integ/compiler/test_query_generator.py
+++ b/tests/integ/compiler/test_query_generator.py
@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@
 import os
 import re
 
-import pandas
+try:
+    import pandas
+
+    is_pandas_available = True
+except ImportError:
+    is_pandas_available = False
+
 import pytest
 
 import snowflake.snowpark._internal.analyzer.snowflake_plan as snowflake_plan
@@ -568,6 +574,7 @@ def test_select_alias_identity(session):
     )
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not is_pandas_available, reason="pandas is required")
 def test_disambiguate_skips_quoted_alias(session):
     # SNOW-3176017: This tests a previous regression in a SnowML pipeline where alias optimization
     # incorrectly removed an alias from """col_0""" (triple-quoted in SQL) to "col_0" (single-quoted).
diff --git a/tests/notebooks/modin/TimeSeriesTesting.ipynb b/tests/notebooks/modin/TimeSeriesTesting.ipynb
index 8fc305a4fc..ae791ddf03 100644
--- a/tests/notebooks/modin/TimeSeriesTesting.ipynb
+++ b/tests/notebooks/modin/TimeSeriesTesting.ipynb
@@ -346,7 +346,9 @@
     }
    ],
    "source": [
-    "ts.resample(\"2h\").mean()"
+    "# Skipped due to modin bug with pandas 2.3.3: https://github.com/modin-project/modin/issues/7697",
+    "# Cannot install lower versions of pandas 2.3 due to https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/65213",
+    "# ts.resample(\"2h\").mean()"
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/tests/notebooks/test_requirements.txt b/tests/notebooks/test_requirements.txt
index 3672bcd445..c344a5574e 100644
--- a/tests/notebooks/test_requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/notebooks/test_requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-numpy==1.23.5
+numpy
 pytest<8.0.0
 nbmake
 matplotlib