diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/readrows/ReadRowsRetryTest.java b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/readrows/ReadRowsRetryTest.java
index 0f9ad21fa0..8a8c6d7709 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/readrows/ReadRowsRetryTest.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/readrows/ReadRowsRetryTest.java
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Range.ByteStringRange;
 import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Row;
 import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
-import com.google.common.collect.Queues;
 import com.google.common.collect.Range;
 import com.google.common.truth.Truth;
 import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
@@ -48,6 +47,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Queue;
+import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingDeque;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Rule;
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ private List<String> getResults(Query query) {
   }
 
   private static class TestBigtableService extends BigtableGrpc.BigtableImplBase {
-    Queue<RpcExpectation> expectations = Queues.newArrayDeque();
+    Queue<RpcExpectation> expectations = new LinkedBlockingDeque<>();
     int i = -1;
 
     @Override