Interim UAT Test Analyst/Manager

The Role

• Coordinate the end-to-end UAT plan, schedule and execution across multiple workstreams, partners and business functions.
• Develop and maintain the overall testing strategy, ensuring clear responsibilities, timelines, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
• Act as the central point of coordination between IT, Operations, system providers, integration partners, carriers and business SMEs.
• Monitor testing progress across all parties, maintaining clear reporting on completion rates, outstanding activities, risks and dependencies.
• Coordinate defect management, ensuring issues are logged, prioritised, assigned to the appropriate partner and progressed through to resolution.
• Facilitate regular testing governance meetings, driving accountability and ensuring blockers are escalated and addressed promptly.
• Coordinate operational validation and business sign-off across the UK, France, Czech Republic and Netherlands.
• Support go-live readiness assessments, cutover planning and initial post-go-live hypercare.
• Ensure testing activities remain aligned to the overall programme timeline and highlight risks that could impact a successful deployment.

About You

• Proven experience in UAT coordination, test management or testing governance within complex systems implementation programmes.
• Strong experience coordinating multiple external partners, system providers, technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Excellent planning, organisation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive progress without necessarily undertaking hands-on testing.
• Experience managing testing schedules, dependencies, defect resolution and readiness reporting across multiple workstreams.
• Experience within supply chain, logistics, transportation or warehouse operations is essential, with transport management experience particularly desirable.
• Familiarity with TMS implementations, 4PL solutions, carrier integrations or wider logistics system implementations would be advantageous.
• A proactive, delivery-focused approach, with the confidence to challenge stakeholders, escalate risks and maintain momentum in a time-critical programme.