diff --git a/dev-python/valkey/valkey-6.1.1.ebuild b/dev-python/valkey/valkey-6.1.1.ebuild
index 1e6876fd34e38..18980fc3f1cb0 100644
--- a/dev-python/valkey/valkey-6.1.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/valkey/valkey-6.1.1.ebuild
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
 BDEPEND="
 	test? (
 		dev-db/valkey
+		dev-python/cachetools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	)
 "