I'm going to guess that you're talking about user titles present in the User Title Manager. Sorry if I'm wrong
Two things:
1. To my knowledge: promotions are not in real time. They are handled by the promotion script every hour (unless modified). This can be viewed in
Scheduled Tasks.
2.
Usergroup Titles and
User Custom User Titles overrule
User Titles. Make sure that your test user does not have a Custom User Title or a Usergroup Title set.
I hope that helps!