Sierra Global continue to lead in quality standards

From left (seated): Arumugam Padmanaban, Lead Auditor of Bureau Veritas India, Dr. Arosha Fernando, Director cum CEO of Sierra Global, M. Vijayakumar, Principal Lead Auditor of Bureau Veritas India. From left: (standing): Ajith Liyanage, General Manager, Network Operations of Sierra Global, C. K. Karunatilake, Chief Financial Officer of Sierra Global, Wijesiri Malasinghe, Senior Consultant to CEO of Sierra Global, Buddhi Somaweera, Lead Auditor of Bureau Veritas Sri Lanka, Saman De Silva, Senior Admin Manager of Sierra Global, Wing Commander Nihal Ratnayake, General Manager, Government and Regulatory Affairs of Sierra Global.

The International Organization for Standardization widely known as ISO is an international standard setting body composed of representatives from 162 countries out of the 205 total countries in the world. Founded in 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial, and commercial standards and having it’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. ISO is the widely accepted quality standard globally today.

Sierra Global Network Pvt Ltd, one of the leading telecommunication infrastructure development and managed services company has obtained the prestigious ISO certification in 2009, and recently undergone it’s three years re-certification program successfully which was undertaken by the global leading quality standards auditing firm, Bureau Veritas of France.

As per the standard rules and regulations of the ISO body, any company obtained ISO certification is required to go through a full re-certification process in every three years period.

“Three years ago Sierra Global achieved the ISO certification after lot of hard work and much focus on quality, and it is important to note that we were the first company in Sri Lanka to receive ISO 9001:2008 certification in the telecom infrastructure development sector where we stand tall in the industry amongst our competitors. We are continually focusing on the Quality in every project company undertakes and aiming continues to be the best in the industry” says Dr. Arosha Fernando, Director cum CEO of Sierra Global.

“During the audit process, over 25 staff members have been directly audited where they have spent three days in the office and one day in the field visiting sites in Kurunagala and Gampaha which the Auditors have picked randomly and observed our activities of Managed Services as well as some telecom equipment installation work. Audit of all our Units, Divisions and business processes has been successfully completed, and Sierra Global has been re-certified after the tedious audit undertaken” concluded Dr. Arosha.