Sarala Pandey - Chipotle
Sarala Pandey is presently serving as the Quality Assurance Manager for Chipotle. She is responsible for managing resource, creating and maintaining QA standards and process for the entire Restaurant support and corporate support application in addition she also manages the RPA team. She drives all QA phases of the Agile development process and responsible for quarterly delivery of all restaurant support and corporate support applications to production. Prior to this Sarala has managed Digital team and in addition, Sarala has enhanced organizational efficiency & efficacy by piloting test automation, exploratory testing, and the continuing education program. She works with each IT team member including Developer, BSA and Architecture to achieve quality assurance operation objectives by preparing & completing action plans within budgetary constraints, as well as individual counseling to ensure professional development. Sarala has provided technical solutions and trainings outside of Digital Channels to the following teams at Huntington: Mergers & Acquisitions, Payment Center, Credit Card, ESS, EDW, MAX, MDM, HAWC, and Leapfrog Mortgage Loan Applications. Sarala is passionate about reducing cost without compromising quality.
She also does great job focusing on career development for her employee. She makes the work place also learning place, she has implemented continuation improvement plan and goal for her team. She not only sets the goal but also provides the resources to achieve those goals for her team Sarala began her career in QA with an internship at Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Over the course of 20 years, she has served as a QA Analyst, QA Lead, Off-shore Liaison, and finally as a QA Manager. She is responsible for delivering industry-wide SDLC standards to AT&T/IBM, SypherLink and Huntington National Bank. She has extensive experience in analyzing scope document, reviewing requirements, writing test plans, providing estimate and project management strategy, project summary documents, metrics & reporting, requirement strategy, and defect management. Sarala has managed projects with Quality Center, Team Foundation Server, and JIRA. Additionally, she has built an offshore testing team while at AT&T and built a QA team at SypherLink, where there was no QA previously.