IMOS & Freight Test Manager
📍 London (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
📄 6-month contract (Inside IR35) with potential extension
Overview
We are seeking an experienced
IMOS & Freight Test Manager
to lead the end-to-end testing strategy and delivery for a large-scale IMOS implementation programme. This is a senior, programme-level role responsible for driving test governance, ensuring business confidence, and supporting go-live readiness across complex freight and trading operations.
You will play a critical role in assuring both core IMOS functionality and bespoke, custom-built solutions, ensuring seamless integration and robust performance under real operational conditions.
Key Responsibilities
Test Strategy & Governance
- Define and own the end-to-end test strategy across IMOS and associated systems
- Establish governance frameworks, entry/exit criteria, acceptance standards, and go/no-go milestones
- Align testing activity with programme timelines, cutover planning, and delivery objectives
Large-Scale UAT Leadership
- Lead and coordinate UAT across chartering, voyage estimation/execution, bunker management, and freight economics
- Partner with vendor and business teams to ensure realistic, end-to-end scenario coverage
- Own UAT outcomes, sign-off processes, and articulation of residual risks
Custom-Built Functionality Assurance
- Maintain oversight of all bespoke functionality delivered alongside IMOS
- Define and implement fit-for-purpose testing approaches for custom components
- Ensure customisations are fully integrated into system and UAT cycles
Integration & End-to-End Testing
- Own testing across the broader ecosystem, including financial, trading, settlement, and reporting systems
- Ensure data integrity, reconciliation, timing accuracy, and controls across platforms
- Validate seamless interaction between IMOS and all integrated solutions
Defect & Quality Management
- Lead defect triage, prioritisation, and resolution processes at programme scale
- Focus on issues impacting freight economics, operational execution, and financial outcomes
Cutover & Go-Live Readiness
- Provide critical input into cutover planning and rehearsal activities
- Deliver evidence-based go/no-go recommendations to programme leadership
- Support transition into hypercare and early-life support
Required Experience & Skills
Test Manager on large, complex programmes
within trading, logistics, or shipping
freight and shipping operations
, with IMOS experience highly desirable
- Extensive experience delivering
SIT, UAT, and non-functional testing
across multi-system environments
- Demonstrated experience testing
custom-built solutions alongside vendor platforms
integration and end-to-end testing across enterprise systems
(e.g., CTRM/ETRM, finance, reporting)
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to influence and challenge at senior level
- Ability to balance delivery pressure while providing clear, evidence-based risk and quality assurance