About

Ciril Ignatious T is a Senior Principal Engineer at Dell EMC with over 16 years of experience in the enterprise storage industry. He has a diverse skillset that includes quality assurance, software test architecture, test automation, project management, customer support, technical pre-sale assistance, and training. Ciril has strong analytical, technical, and communication skills, as well as good leadership and team playing abilities. Ciril has played multiple roles in his organization, including technical QA lead, scrum master, lab coordinator, and individual contributor. He has a deep understanding of SDLC and testing life cycles, with hands-on experience in waterfall and agile/iterative development and test methodologies. He has strong QA/testing industry knowledge and has led QA teams in core storage product testing. Ciril has expertise in the storage domain, including SAN, DAS, and NAS. He has in-depth knowledge of LSI/NetApp Engenio-Series product line, which are OEM products for IBM, Dell, Sun/Oracle, SGI, and Teradata. He is also well-versed in QA, test technology, and architecture, including requirement analysis, scoping, sizing the resources, test planning, equipment ordering and tracking, lab coordination, execution, tracking, reporting, and test automation. Ciril has worked with teams in geographically dispersed locations, including the US and India. He has a proven track record in hiring the best talent, motivating, training, and building a team with attention to the career path and aspirations of every team member. He has hands-on experience in all the Engenio/LSI/Netapp hardware, FC/iSCSI/Network/IB/SAS switches, servers, protocol analyzers, and exposure to all the operating systems, including Windows, Linux, AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and VMware. Ciril has helped the technical pre-sales and marketing teams in winning deals with competitive analysis experience in the enterprise storage industry. He has excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong analytic, problem-solving, collaboration, team building, and interpersonal skills. He is a quick learner, self-motivated, dedicated, energetic, proactive, and hardworking. Ciril has a B.Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Government Engineering College Thrissur. He also has a Pre-Degree in Mathematics and Science from St. Thomas College Thrissur and attended Deepthi H S S Thrissur and Deepth