Test Suite Execution Failing after upgrade to 7.9 - Method Call

When I now execute my regression suite after upgrading to 7.9 I’m seeing the following error below and I have no idea why… This works fine in the previous version

Any help would be appreciated and I can provide more info if required.

2021-02-03 09:09:33.838 ERROR c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - :x: Test Cases/Methods/Create Contract FAILED.
Reason:
java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation in interface itable initialization: when resolving method “org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl.getChildNodes()Lorg/w3c/dom/NodeList;” the class loader (instance of org/codehaus/groovy/tools/RootLoader) of the current class, org/apache/xerces/dom/NodeImpl, and the class loader (instance of ) for interface org/w3c/dom/Node have different Class objects for the type org/w3c/dom/NodeList used in the signature
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractDOMParser.startDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.startEntity(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLVersionDetector.startDocumentParsing(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.poi.util.DocumentHelper.readDocument(DocumentHelper.java:140)
at org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.internal.ContentTypeManager.parseContentTypesFile(ContentTypeManager.java:374)
at org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.internal.ContentTypeManager.(ContentTypeManager.java:100)
at org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.internal.ZipContentTypeManager.(ZipContentTypeManager.java:54)
at org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.ZipPackage.getPartsImpl(ZipPackage.java:253)
at org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage.getParts(OPCPackage.java:756)
at org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage.open(OPCPackage.java:327)
at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:184)
at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:149)
at com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.reader.WorbookProvider.getExcelData(WorbookProvider.java:24)
at com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.reader.ExcelFactory.getExcelData(ExcelFactory.java:31)
at com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.reader.ExcelFactory.getExcelDataWithDefaultSheet(ExcelFactory.java:17)
at com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestDataFactory.readExcelData(TestDataFactory.java:223)
at com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestDataFactory.internallyfindTestData(TestDataFactory.java:149)
at com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestDataFactory.findTestData(TestDataFactory.java:129)
at com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestDataFactory$findTestData.callStatic(Unknown Source)
at Create Contract.run(Create Contract:11)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.run(ScriptEngine.java:194)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.runScriptAsRawText(ScriptEngine.java:119)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.runScript(TestCaseExecutor.java:398)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.doExecute(TestCaseExecutor.java:389)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.processExecutionPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:368)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.accessMainPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:360)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.execute(TestCaseExecutor.java:255)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.runTestCase(TestCaseMain.java:114)
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.builtin.CallTestCaseKeyword$_callTestCase_closure1.doCall(CallTestCaseKeyword.groovy:59)
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.builtin.CallTestCaseKeyword$_callTestCase_closure1.call(CallTestCaseKeyword.groovy)
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordMain.runKeyword(KeywordMain.groovy:68)
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.builtin.CallTestCaseKeyword.callTestCase(CallTestCaseKeyword.groovy:81)
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.builtin.CallTestCaseKeyword.execute(CallTestCaseKeyword.groovy:44)
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordExecutor.executeKeywordForPlatform(KeywordExecutor.groovy:73)
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.BuiltinKeywords.callTestCase(BuiltinKeywords.groovy:334)
at Add Account - 1 SPID.run(Add Account - 1 SPID:29)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.run(ScriptEngine.java:194)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.runScriptAsRawText(ScriptEngine.java:119)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.runScript(TestCaseExecutor.java:398)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.doExecute(TestCaseExecutor.java:389)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.processExecutionPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:368)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.accessMainPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:360)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.execute(TestCaseExecutor.java:255)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestSuiteExecutor.accessTestCaseMainPhase(TestSuiteExecutor.java:203)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestSuiteExecutor.accessTestSuiteMainPhase(TestSuiteExecutor.java:152)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestSuiteExecutor.execute(TestSuiteExecutor.java:95)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.startTestSuite(TestCaseMain.java:157)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain$startTestSuite$0.call(Unknown Source)
at TempTestSuite1612343232536.run(TempTestSuite1612343232536.groovy:39)

2021-02-03 09:09:33.922 INFO .k.c.e.TestExecutionSocketServerEndpoint - Start generating Time Capsule at Wed Feb 03 09:09:33 GMT 2021
2021-02-03 09:09:33.923 WARN .k.c.e.TestExecutionSocketServerEndpoint - null
2021-02-03 09:09:38.903 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - END CALL Test Cases/Methods/Create Contract